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The Informer

20 Feb 2018

Is gonorrhoea really on the rise in Australia?

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Is gonorrhoea really on the rise in Australia?

The sexually transmitted infection gonorrhoea is on the rise. And so is community concern about growing antibiotic resistance to its treatment.

But ARE STIs becoming untreatable superbugs? Is PrEp responsible for the rise in gonorrhoea? What do we and our doctors need to know.

Ian Muchamore Investigates how concerned we need to be with Professor John Turnidge their senior medical advisor about what they found and I also spoke to Anthony AJ Smith from the M Clinic sexual health service in Perth and Dr Eric Chow, a doctor at Melbourne Sexual Health Service.

This aired on The Informer on JOY 94.9 on 20th February 2018

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