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Removing distance as a barrier for sexual health screening

4 January 2021

A network of bulk-billed GP sexual health clinics is reducing the tyranny of distance and improving access to screening for people in the outer areas of Melbourne.

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STI rise not linked with condom use among men using PrEP

10 April 2019

Sexual health experts are reinforcing the importance of frequent testing as new research highlights a significant increase in STIs among gay and bisexual men using HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP).

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Dr Eric Chow, Melbourne Sexual Health Centre

New research maps 99 years of STI trends

15 January 2018

A surge in STIs following the world wars and the sexual revolution, and a drop after the advent of antibiotics, were just some of the historical sexual health trends revealed in new research by Melbourne Sexual Health Centre (MSHC).

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GPs armed with new guidelines to tackle STIs in the community

6 March 2017

Guidelines to assist general practitioners and sexual health specialists to detect, manage and treat sexually transmissible infections (STIs) have been updated to reflect new testing recently approved in Australia.

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