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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

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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
The chief medical officer and chief executive of Doherty Clinical Trials, Professor James McCarthy and Dr Andrew Brockway at the unit’s temporary East Melbourne facility.

Virus volunteers to help Melbourne’s new human trials clinic prepare for the next pandemic

The flu, malaria and even gonorrhoea will be studied to help the first lab of its type in the southern hemisphere stay one step ahead of the prime candidate for the next pandemic.

  • Aisha Dow
“We’re always thinking that sex comes from horniness,” says sex therapist Jacqueline Hellyer. “But the chance of two people feeling horny at the same time is pretty slim.”

Online learning made it hard to teach sex ed. Now STIs are surging

New data shows rates of gonorrhea, syphilis and chlamydia rebounded in 2022, following a fall during the pandemic era.

  • Mary Ward
Becoming familiar with your partner’s body can make you alert to any changes.

A healthy sex life can also help you spot the early signs of a problem

For all the public health campaigns recommending that we check our breasts and skin for anything sinister, we often neglect to check our genitals.

  • Katrina Marson
Sexual health physicians want PCR testing for syphilis to be used widely to help contain a growing epidemic of disease in Melbourne.

PCR-test blitz urged to counter Melbourne’s syphilis surge

Doctors say the lessons learnt about containing coronavirus should now be applied to all sexually transmitted infections.

  • Melissa Cunningham
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Monkeypox cause for concern, not panic as nation braces for more cases

The monkeypox outbreak has so far largely affected men who have sex with men, so there are simple precautions experts believe can limit its spread.

  • Melissa Cunningham
An electron microscope image shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions.

‘Sexual form of monkeypox’ blamed for global spread of virus

Experts have pointed to a change in the spread of the usually mild infectious disease at an urgently called World Health Organisation meeting.

  • Jennifer Rigby
Associate Professor Eric Chow

Gonorrhoea 'epidemic' hits city's outer suburbs

Gonorrhoea infections are surging in Melbourne’s outer suburbs with Melton and Casey experiencing the sharpest increase in cases.

  • Melissa Cunningham
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A pox on both their fashion houses

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Original URL: https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/topic/sexually-transmitted-infections-1n3w