Doctors on alert amid rise in antibiotic-resistant shigellosis
Antibiotic-resistant shigella infections are increasing in Victoria, with health authorities urging GPs to request stool cultures for suspected cases. A health alert issued by the…
Tag: Sexual health
Spot Dx — What’s behind these lesions?
Jasmine, a 24-year-old hairdresser, presents to her GP concerned about some genital lesions that have developed over the last few weeks. Test your clinical know-how…
Managing the great mimic
Need to know: Infectious syphilis notification rates in Australia have been steadily increasing since 2011, with the majority of cases affecting gay, bisexual and other…
Dedicated LARC insertion clinics key to greater IUD uptake: study
IUD uptake among Australian women could be boosted if GPs had the option to provide a rapid referral to dedicated long-acting reversible contraceptive insertion clinics,…
Is doxycycline PEP the new morning after pill for STIs?
A single dose of doxycycline taken within three days of condomless sex cuts the risk of gonorrhoea, chlamydia and syphilis diagnoses by two thirds among…
A GP guide to gonorrhoea
Need to know: Gonorrhoea is caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae, a Gram-negative diplococcus (see figure 1). Notifications have been increasing, although in 2020 there…
Vic pharmacy prescribing trial will involve 420,000 consults: analysis
Pharmacists in Victoria will conduct almost half a million consults under the state’s pharmacy prescribing trial, treasury officials have predicted. As part of his re-election…
Let GPs dispense abortion drugs, inquiry told
The RACGP wants MS-2 Step added to the prescriber’s bag so patients no longer have to find a registered pharmacist to access medical abortion. It…
Pharmacists to renew expired scripts under state’s prescribing trial
Pharmacists will be able to renew GPs’ contraceptive scripts even if they are expired under the NSW Government’s pharmacy prescribing plan. More details have emerged…
Azithromycin no longer first line for chlamydia: new guidance
Editor’s note: This story has been updated with the correct special management regimens for complicated Mycoplasma genitalium infection. For the two combination treatment scenarios involving…
