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Volume 188 - Issue 10

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

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (10): 620-621. || doi: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2008.tb01807.x
Published online: 19 May 2008

The WHO recommends whole-of-community antibiotic treatment for chlamydial eye disease (trachoma). a recent article suggested the same approach should be taken to manage endemic chlamydial disease when the same organism is sexually transmitted. This controversial approach has sparked debate. (MJA 2008; 188: 182-184)


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