The Advertiser, February 14, 2017 8:02pm
The state’s Guardian for Children has complained that a ban on female genital mutilation has been left out of new South Australian child protection laws.
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PEP after Non-Occupational and Occupational Exposure to HIV: Australian Guidelines revised
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The global spread of HIV
Infection, Genetics and Evolution, Available online 2 June 2016 Abstract: Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) was discovered in the early 1980s when the virus had already established a pandemic. For at least three decades the epidemic in the Western World has been dominated by subtype B infections, as part of a sub-epidemic that traveled from Africa through Haiti to United States...
Tinea genitalis: a new entity of sexually transmitted infection?
Sex Transm Infect 2015;91:493-496 doi:10.1136/sextrans-2015-052036 Case series and review of the literature Abstract: Objective Investigation on recent cases of tinea genitalis after travelling to South East Asia. Methods Patients with tinea in the genital region, which emerged after sex in South East Asia, underwent further assessment including microscopy, cultures and DNA analyses. Results The...
New annual report on STIs & blood-borne viruses in South Australia
Communicable Disease Control Branch (CDCB), SA Health, August 2015 SA Health publishes annual reports on sexually transmitted infections and blood-borne viruses in South Australia. The 2014 report has just been released. A total of 7258 new notifications of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and blood borne viruses (BBVs) were received in South Australia in 2014. This represents a 23%...
HIV and mobility in Australia
Australian Research Centre in Sex Health and Society, 2014 HIV and Mobility: Road Map for Action presents five key action areas for HIV and mobility issues in Australia. The report shines a spotlight on the context and types of mobility, differences in HIV diagnoses across Australia relating to migrant and mobile populations and the need for more targeted and nuanced responses. Download report...