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

David J Scrimgeour

MJA 2008; 188 (10): 621

To the Editor: It was pleasing to see Bowden and Fethers raising the issue of public health approaches to sexually transmissible infection (STI) control in remote Indigenous communities.1 However, their suggestion that mass treatment programs would be more effective than screening programs is flawed.

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