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Growing up with cancer: Accommodating the effects of cancer into young people’s social lives.
Published 2013-01-01
Adolescence and young adulthood are transitional periods of rapid and dramatic personal change. Few events can cause as unpredictable and challenging alterations to this process as the onset of a serious illness, such as ...
Open Access
Article
Lesbian and gay drug and alcohol trends 2013
Published 2013-01-01
Lesbian and gay drug trends - What's behind the numbers? A community presentation on the findings of the Alcohol and Other Drugs Sydney Women and Sexual Health (SWASH) survey 2006 - 2012.
Open Access
Presentation
The burden of bacterial vaginosis: Women’s experience and the psychosocial impact of living with recurrent bacterial vaginosis
Published 2013-01-01
Background Bacterial vaginosis is a common vaginal infection, causing an abnormal vaginal discharge and/or odour in up to 50% of sufferers. Recurrence is common following recommended treatment. There are limited data on ...
Open Access
Article
“Sometimes I get in an awkward situation”: Examining the ongoing effects of cancer on young people’s relationships
Published 2013-01-01
Adolescence (12 – 17 years of age) and emerging adulthood (18 – 25 years of age) are periods of rapid and dramatic change in young people’s physical, psychological, and social development. Few events can cause such ...
Open Access
Conference poster
Increasing repeat chlamydia testing in Family Planning clinics depends on perception of value and availability of low-burden flexible reminder systems.
Published 2013-01-01
Re‐infection after a chlamydia infection is common: 22% of young Australian women are re‐infected within 4‐5months (Walker, et al, 2012). Re‐infections increase the risk of pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) by 4‐6 fold ...
Open Access
Conference poster
At the intersection of marginalised identities: Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people’s experiences of injecting drug use and hepatitis C seroconversion
Published 2013-01-01
While the levels of injecting drug use among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) populations are high we know little about their experiences of injecting drugs or living with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. ...
Open Access
Article
Condom negotiation across different relationship types by young women engaged in sex work in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Published 2013-01-01
Cambodia’s 100% Condom Use Programme is credited with an increase in consistent condom use in commercial sexual interactions and a decrease in HIV prevalence among female sex workers (FSWs). There has been little improvement ...
Open Access
Article
Women in contact with the gay and lesbian community in Sydney: Report of the Sydney Women and Sexual Health (SWASH) Survey 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2012
Published 2013-01-01
The Sydney Women and Sexual Health (SWASH) survey is run by a collaboration of ACON and researchers at the University of Sydney (prior to 2009, researchers were based at the University of New South Wales). It was first ...
Open Access
Technical Report
Patient delivered partner therapy for chlamydia: Support and concern among doctors and nurses working in Australian Family Planning clinics
Published 2013-01-01
Patient delivered partner therapy (PDPT) is the practice of providing a prescription or medication to a patient diagnosed with an STI to give to their partner without that partner being assessed by a clinician. International ...
Open Access
Conference poster
Health knowledge and behaviour in an Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service in QLD
Published 2013-01-01
Chlamydia is the most commonly notified infectious disease in Australia and if left untreated can have serious long-term morbidities. Goondir Health Service (Goondir HS) is an Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service ...
Open Access
Conference poster