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Robbie Dettmann recently tried to access STI testing at the state’s only public sexual health clinic but was turned away.

Victoria’s only public sexual health clinic axes a key service as STI rates soar

When Robbie tried to access the Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, the doors were locked. It was then he discovered the walk-in service had been axed.

  • Henrietta Cook and Alexander Darling

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Dr Shivani Pasricha, a laboratory head in the department of infectious diseases at the Doherty Institute.

Melbourne device could prove ‘game changing’ for sexual health

A laptop-sized piece of medical equipment is set to cut days off STI test results and offer more accurate results by searching for distinct genetic “barcodes”.

  • Broede Carmody
Grace Toombs, founder of June, Australia’s first at-home cervical screening test kit.

‘Putting the sexy back in sex’: What’s the solution to rising youth STIs?

STI rates are rising for young Australians, while safe sex practices like using condoms, regular testing and contraception are declining.

  • Lauren Ironmonger
Reports that hundreds of men may have been exposed to HIV and hepatitis C after sharing injecting equipment with a male prisoner have renewed calls for needle and syringe programs in Queensland prisons.

Calls for needle-exchange program after hundreds of prisoners at risk

Almost 300 people have potentially been exposed to HIV and hepatitis C in prison, but the state government has brushed aside calls for sterile equipment.

  • Courtney Kruk
The Neisseria gonorrhoeae bacteria, which causes gonorrhea.

Drug-resistant ‘gonorrhoea superbugs’ are spreading across Sydney

Health authorities are growing concerned about the limited effectiveness of antibiotics to treat the common sexually transmitted infection.

  • Angus Thomson
Bill Gates’s spokesperson denied the claim as “absolutely absurd and completely false”.

Bill Gates caught STD from Russian girls, Epstein claimed

The latest released files also show Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was allegedly introduced to a 26-year-old Russian woman in 2010, after Epstein’s conviction for soliciting prostitution.

  • Gordon Rayner, Verity Bowman and Nick Gutteridge
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Congenital syphilis cases are rising in Victoria

The silent sexually transmitted infection killing Victorian babies

A resurgence of congenital syphilis in Victoria after a 25-year hiatus has prompted an overhaul of screening for pregnant women.

  • Henrietta Cook
Once Jessie and her partner were both treated for the bacteria that causes BV, Jessie no longer kept experiencing the infection’s return.

This common infection can cause female infertility. It turns out men are ‘the missing link’ in transmission

One in three women experience bacterial vaginosis, but a breakthrough Australian study has found that treating male sexual partners significantly reduces the chance of a recurrence.

  • Wendy Tuohy
The Australian-developed AI model is able to fairly accurately distinguish between STIs from a patient image. 

Using AI, this app may tell if you have an STI

An Australian app is showing promise in identifying infections in photos using artificial intelligence, amid a surge in people contracting STIs over the past year.

  • Mary Ward
Queensland is set to join three other Australian jurisdictions in decriminalising sex work.

‘I’ve been called a whore by a GP’: Calls to repeal mandatory sex worker health testing

Queensland sex worker Eva says doctors can be ‘patronising and really offensive’, making it difficult to comply with laws that mandate she and her colleagues have regular health tests.

  • Courtney Kruk