Sexual health

Empowering women improves both productivity and health outcomes

Patricia M Davidson · Nancy E Glass · Michelle DiGiacomo

Adhering to screening recommendations is essential to avoiding increased HIV infection rates in remote communities

James S Ward · Amalie Dyda · Skye McGregor · Alice Rumbold · Linda Garton · Basil Donovan · John M Kaldor · Rebecca J Guy

HIV infection is an important risk factor for stroke and testing should be performed in all young stroke patients

Abhay R Venkat · Jason Wenderoth · Louise Evans · Cecilia Cappelen-Smith

Comprehensive sexual and reproductive health care contributes to the autonomy of Indigenous women

Sarah L Larkins · Priscilla Page

A new option would complement the existing screening program, not replace it

Annabelle Farnsworth MB BS(Hons), FRCPA, FIAC

The promise of HPV vaccines is coming to fruition in disease prevention

Julia ML Brotherton MPH(Hons), FAFPHM, PhD · Dorota M Gertig MHSc, ScD, FAFPHM · Cathryn May BAppSc, GradCertHlthInfo · Genevieve Chappell BAppSc(MRA), MBA · Marion Saville MB ChB, FIAC, GradDipMed(ClinEpi)

HPV self-collection may improve outcomes for underscreened women, but joining the mainstream HPV screening program is better

Megan Smith MPH, BE · Jie Bin Lew BSc(Bioinformatics), MPH · Kate Simms PhD · Karen Canfell DPhil

Sexual abuse in the medical profession is a complex, multifaceted problem that needs evidence-based solutions

Louise E Stone MPH, MQHR, PhD · Kirsty Douglas DipRACOG, MD, FRACGP · Imogen Mitchell PhD, FRACP, FCICM · Beverley Raphael AM, MD, FRANZCP

The RACGP recommend that screening be limited to those at highest risk

Katy Bell MB ChB, MMed(ClinEpi), PhD

An insufficiently specific test may be leading to false-positive diagnoses of gonorrhoea

Eric P F Chow PhD, MPH, MApplSc · Glenda Fehler MSc, FMLT · Tim R H Read PhD, MB BS, FAChSHM · Sepehr N Tabrizi PhD · Jane S Hocking PhD, MPH, MHlthSc · Ian Denham MB BS, FRACP, FAChSHM · Catriona S Bradshaw MB BS(Hons), FACSHP, PhD · Marcus Y Chen MB BS, PhD, FAChSHM · Christopher K Fairley PhD, FAFPHM, FACSHP

Push for starting ART early

Limin Mao PhD · Philippe C G Adam PhD · Susan Kippax BA(Hons), PhD · Levinia Crooks BA(Hons), DipEd, MBA · Jeffrey J Post MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP · Michael R Kidd AM, MD, FRACGP · Sean Slavin PhD · Edwina J Wright MB BS, PhD, FRACP · John B F de Wit MSc, PhD

A serious rash highlights the importance of a patient’s sexual history

Joyce H Y Ma MB BS · Simon Smith MB ChB · Lynette A Gordon MB BS(Hons), FACD

A simple test involving swabbing upper and lower gum lines may help tackle Australia’s HIV epidemic

Derek Chan MPH, FAChSHM, PhD · Michael Stewart BIntS, MIPH · Maggie Smith RN, CertSexualReproductiveHealth · Tony Price BN, MNurs(Ed) · Jo Lusk MB ChB, FAChSHM, MPH · Catriona Ooi MB BS, BSc(Med), FAChSHM · Phillip Read MRCP, MPH, FAChSHM · Robert Finlayson MB BS, FAChSHM

The conflicted and contested scope of sexual health medicine

Graham Neilsen · Jocelyn Klug

Vaccinated women need to be screened

Annabelle Farnsworth MB BS(Hons), FRCPA, FIAC

Concerns that women may not continue to participate in screening appear to be warranted

Alison C Budd PhD · Julia M L Brotherton BMed(Hons), MPH(Hons), FAFPHM · Dorota M Gertig MB BS(Hons), ScD, FAFPHM · Theresa Chau BPsychSc · Kelly T Drennan BHlthSc, PGCertCommDev · Marion Saville MB ChB, FIAC, GradDipMed(ClinEpi)

Discussions with men about sexual health may also help identify life-threatening disease

Mark Wenitong · Michael Adams · Carol A Holden

Subtle glomerular changes provide clues to the cause of a mother’s postpartum weight gain and oedema

Andrea K Viecelli MB BS(Hons) · Daniel D Wong BSc(Med), MB BS(Hons), FRCPA · Andrew P McLean-Tooke FRCP, FRCPath, FRCPA · Aron Chakera DPhil, FHEA, FRACP

High, increasing chlamydia rates highlight need for better prevention and screening programs for Indigenous people

Catherine C O’Connor DrPH, FAChSHM, MB BS(Hons) · Hammad Ali MB BS, MPH · Rebecca J Guy BAppSc, MAppEpi, PhD · David J Templeton MB ChB, PhD, FAChSHM · Christopher K Fairley PhD, FRACP, FAChSHM · Marcus Y Chen MB BS, PHD, FAChSHM · Bridget M Dickson · Lewis J Marshall MB BS, FAChSHM, FAFPHM · Andrew E Grulich MB BS, PhD, MScEpid · Margaret E Hellard MB BS, FRACP, PHD · John M Kaldor PhD · Basil Donovan MB BS, MD, FAChSHM · James S Ward BA

Herpes zoster is a painful, disabling condition so the recent development of preventive vaccines is welcome

Anthony L Cunningham AO, MD, FRACP · John C B Litt MB BS, FRACGP, PhD · C Raina MacIntyre FRACP, FAFPHM, PhD

A recent Senate Committee report makes for welcome reading for lesbian, gay and bisexual Australians

Jed Horner BA, BHSc(Hons) · Nick J Roberts BSc(Hons)Psych

If GPs offered chlamydia testing to all young adults, rates of diagnosis and treatment would be much higher

Anna H Yeung BSc(Hons), MPH · Meredith Temple-Smith BSc, MPH, DHSc · Christopher K Fairley MB BS, PhD · Alaina M Vaisey BSc, MPH · Rebecca Guy PhD · Matthew G Law MA, MSc, PhD · Nicola Low MD, FFPH, MSc · Amie L Bingham BA(Hons), BSc, MPH · Jane Gunn MB BS, PhD · John Kaldor PhD · Basil Donovan MD, FAFPHM, FAChSHM · Jane S Hocking MPH, MHSc(PHP), PhD

Investment in women is central to future global development

Catherine R Bateman-Steel MB ChB, BSc, MSc

Objective: To test the popular assertion that bald men are more virile than their well thatched contemporariesDesign, participants and setting: Secondary analysis of data from a case–control study in a community setting between 1994 and 1997 among men below the age of 70 years, using in-person interviews and categorisation of baldness, with subsequent completion of a questionnaire by the participant. We analysed risk factors for baldness ...

Rodney D Sinclair MB BS, MD, FACD · Dallas R English BSc, MS, PhD · Graham G Giles PhD