Sexual Health

A new study has found more than half of unintended pregnancies are the result of Australian women not using contraception. Australian women

There's been a rise in heterosexuals diagnosed with HIV but there's no need to return to a "Grim Reaper-style" advertising campaign, experts say.

Melbourne university students' biological clocks are ticking faster than they realise, new research reveals. Only 45 per cent of women

NSW Health will be testing festival-goers for chlamydia at Splendour in the Grass to help raise awareness of sexually transmitted infections.

Australian researchers are developing a hormone-free male contraceptive pill that wouldn't impact libido or fertility, and believe it could be available in the

Charles Darwin University researchers are seeking transgender Australians living with HIV to share their post-diagnosis psychosocial and medical experiences.

The federal opposition has announced a funding boost for Australia's peak HIV organisations if it wins the next election to increase preventive drug trials.

Home-testing kits for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) should be approved for use across the country to address the increase in cases among those born in sub-Saharan Africa

New research has found a strong association between oral sex behaviours and HPV-positive head and neck cancers in Australian patients. A strong

Improving the knowledge and attitudes concerning sexual expression of people with dementia amongst health professionals, has been the goal of a Griffith study.

The new ASHM Australian HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Clinical Guidelines have been published in the Journal of Virus Eradication (Journal

New Zealand-led research has shown a link between the meningococcal group B vaccine (MeNZB™) used here between 2004 and 2008 and a reduction in cases of gonorrhoea.

Gonorrhoea rates surged in WA last year and figures for the year to date suggest the trend continues upwards. Gonorrhoea

Family Planning NSW announces the launch of Contraception: An Australian Clinical Practice Handbook, fourth edition, developed in partnership with Family Planning Victoria

Article by Elizabeth Elliott

New research from the Institute for Health & Ageing at Australian Catholic University has found that while many older Australians

West Australians are being reminded about the importance of practising safe sex, after a significant rise in the number of people diagnosed with gonorrhoea.

With commercial sperm banking giving women more opportunities to become mothers, a world-first QUT study has found the age and education

A national youth health study indicates that youth are delaying sexual activity until they are older; however those who are sexually active are less prepared and less

The sexual health of men in remote Indigenous communities would likely improve if they had access to “male safe areas” in health clinics or male-specific outreach