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Sexual harassment, aggression & violence victimisation among mobile dating app & website users in Australia

By J Pope
In Crime and law, LGBTIQ+ issues, Sexual, gendered & partner violence
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Australian Institute of Criminology, 04-10-2022 Today the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) has released a report that reveals that three in every four survey respondents had been subjected to sexual violence facilitated via dating apps in the last five years. Sexual harassment was the most common form of behavior reported, as well as abusive and threatening language, and unsolicited...

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Monkeypox update: Your Questions Answered video with Dr Dr Vincent Cornelisse / Updated Clinical Guidance from ATAGI / Responding to MPX: GBM in Australia (Survey)

By J Pope
In Gay Lesbian & Bisexual Health, Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)
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MPX – Monkeypox – Your Questions Answered (video) Thorne Harbour Health, 26 Aug, 2022 Thorne Harbour Health’s Cal Hawk is joined by Dr Vincent Cornelisse to unpack the latest information we have about the current global outbreak of the monkeypox virus (MPXV) including what our communities can do now to reduce their risk. Vincent is a specialist in sexual health medicine and...

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Free Sexual Health Week resources from SHINE SA

By J Pope
In Safer sex, Sex & relationships education, SHINE SA news & events, Young people
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SHINE SA, August 2022 Sexual Health Week runs from 12-18 September, 2022. Sexual Health Week invites all South Australians to have conversations around improving our sexual health and relationship wellbeing. SHINE SA has a number of free digital and physical resources which can help your organisation get involved. Unfortunately many people feel embarrassed talking about their sexual health;...

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Sexual health & BBV resources for professionals who work with multicultural communities

By J Pope
In Contraception, Gay Lesbian & Bisexual Health, HIV, Multicultural communities
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Centre for Culture, Ethnicity and Health, as at August 2022 The Centre for Culture, Ethnicity and Health aims to improve the health and wellbeing of people from refugee and migrant backgrounds. Part of this involves working with professionals from health, community, and local government services to improve their responsiveness to people from these communities.  One of the ways they do this is by...

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Descriptive norms about condom use predict odds of [adolescents] using a condom

By J Pope
In Safer sex, Sex & relationships education, Young people
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McCarthy Molly, Kauer Sylvia, Fisher Christopher (2022) Descriptive norms about condom use predict odds of using a condom during last sexual experience in a large, national survey of adolescents from Australia. Sexual Health, online early, Abstract: Background: Reducing sexually transmitted infections among adolescents is an important public health goal in Australia and worldwide. This study...

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South Australian results of the Migrant Blood-Borne Virus and Sexual Health Survey (MiBSS)

By J Pope
In Hepatitis, HIV, Multicultural communities, Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)
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Curtin University,  released August 2021 In Australia, there are significant health disparities between domestic- and overseas-born residents with respect to sexually transmissible infections (STIs) and blood-borne viruses (BBVs). For instance, in 2017 the HIV notification rate in Australia was over three times higher for people born in South-East Asia (14 per 100,000) and Sub-Saharan Africa (13...

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