eMJA: “Let’s not talk about sex”; reconsidering the public health approach to sexually transmissible infections in remote Indigenous populations in Australia

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“Let’s not talk about sex”; reconsidering the public health approach to sexually transmissible infections in remote Indigenous populations in Australia

Sandra C Thompson, Darryl M Kickett and Timothy G Leahy

MJA 2008; 188 (10): 620

To the Editor: Bowden and Fethers’ provocative recommendations for mass antibiotic treatment to reduce the prevalence of sexually transmissible infections (STIs) in remote Aboriginal communities is based on the failure of the current approach of screening and treatment of individuals to reduce STI prevalence.1 However, approaches that address a single health issue in isolation will not succeed in improving Aboriginal health.

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