sexually transmitted diseases

Dramatic spikes in syphilis and gonorrhoea are 'particularly concerning' as testing for STIs is decreasing.

Medics are warning Aussies to be "vigilant' amid a "concerning" rise in two kinds of sexually transmitted infections, particularly in young people.

Worryingly, most STIs remain undiagnosed and untreated across the country

Two Australian women have opened up about living with genital herpes and how the stigma around the relatively-common virus has affected them.

Sexual health testing already comes with a stigma for many young people but now they're staring down the barrel of the essential service becoming unaffordable as general practices phase out bulk billing.

Outbreaks of the sexually transmitted disease syphilis are infiltrating suburbs in Melbourne's outer south-east and west, alarming statistics show.

Police in Vietnam have confiscated an estimated 345,000 used condoms which had been cleaned and resold as new, state media reported.

In a world first, French scientists have demonstrated how HIV infects hosts through sexual transmission.

There is a “pressing need” for new medicines to treat gonorrhoea as antibiotic-resistant cases of the common sexually-transmitted infection are on the rise, making it harder to treat, the World Health Organisation has warned.