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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.
- by Mary Ward
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‘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.
- by Courtney Kruk
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Science
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.
- by Aisha Dow
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.
- by Mary Ward
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.
- by Katrina Marson
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.
- by Melissa Cunningham
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.
- by Melissa Cunningham
‘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.
- by Jennifer Rigby
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.
- by Melissa Cunningham
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Illness
Syphilis epidemic in Melbourne suburbs: scientists use genomic sequencing to track STD
Melbourne scientists will use genomic sequencing for the first time to track fast spreading syphilis outbreaks running rampant in the city’s outer western suburbs, as doctors warn immediate intervention is needed to contain an evolving epidemic of the sexually transmitted disease.
- by Melissa Cunningham
Original URL: https://www.smh.com.au/topic/sexually-transmitted-infections-1n3w