STIs
PrEP listing decision deferred
An HIV prevention advocate has vowed to keep fighting for pre exposure prophylaxis to be PBS listed Following the announcement by the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee that it will defer …
How resistant bacteria looks in Australia
A new surveillance system set up to provide early warning of the spread of dangerous bacteria has detected more than 1,000 cases across Australia resistant to last-line antibiotics The system …
Meningococcal B vaccine may protect against gonorrhoea
With some strains of the common STI now resistant to all available drugs, the discovery provides new hope for a vaccine A retrospective case-control study of more than 14,000 New …
‘HIV flourishes in the shadows of stigma.’
Could a new trial by NSW Health, allowing people to collect their own blood sample at home and send it for an HIV test, improve testing rates? In a move away from …
HIV at all time high in Aboriginal population
New national statistics released from the Australasian Sexual Health and HIV & AIDS Conferences reveal that HIV in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is at an all time high, …
One in 20 have chlamydia
One in twenty young Aussies has chlamydia, and most of them don’t know it, new figures show. The latest annual reports about sexually transmitted diseases in Australia show that at …
PrEP drug wasted unless PBS listed
The Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations has welcomed the TGA decision to register a drug for HIV prevention as a major milestone towards ending HIV transmission. AFAO is now calling …