The Guardian, July 21st, 2017 Almost half the world’s population is online and billions of young people use social media. So why doesn’t more sex education happen across these channels? The first Global Advisory Board for Sexual Health and Wellbeing brings together a group of individuals from across the world who are using innovative ways to reach more people with information about sex and...
SAMESH, August 2017 SAMESH has released a new PEP video on their YouTube Channel. The is about Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP) for HIV prevention. PEP is a course of medication that if begun within 72 hours of exposure (the sooner the better) may prevent you becoming infected with HIV. To learn more about PEP visit www.getpep.info Find out more about getting PEP in SA here Watch the new video...
news.com.au, August 29, 2017 Many people born overseas seem oblivious to efforts to stamp out HIV in Australia. Marco Matillano, an Australian of Filipino descent who has had his own brush with HIV, thinks he know at least part of the answer — bashfulness when it comes to sex. He said there’s an unwillingness for friends, family — and even people themselves — to discuss sexual health and there...
South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, 2017 This website is a one-stop shop for resources about STIs and BBVs. Rates of STIs and BBVs in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities have been way too high for way too long – especially affecting young people in regional and remote communities. It’s time to turn this around. This means making regular sexual health checks a...
ABC Radio National Life Matters, Monday 5 June 2017 9:06 AM Did you know that Australia has a national strategy to reduce HIV transmission to zero by 2020? That’s a big ask and it’s only three years away. There are currently about 25,000 people living with HIV in Australia and the number of new infections each year is down to about 1000. But it’s been stuck at that number for...
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2017 doi:10.1111/1753-6405.12655 Lyons, A., Heywood, W., Fileborn, B., Minichiello, V., Barrett, C., Brown, G., Hinchliff, S., Malta, S. and Crameri, P. Abstract: Objective: Rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are rising among older Australians. We conducted a large survey of older people’s knowledge of STIs and safer sexual...