Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs)

See also AIDS & HIV

Australian sites

AIDS Council of SA

South Australia's peak community based HIV/AIDS organisation, responsible for providing advocacy, education, information, care and support services to people living with AIDS/HIV and their carers. This website offers links to treatment news, resources, databases and other key AIDS/HIV sites.

 

Australian Herpes Management Forum - AHMF

This site provides the essential facts about herpes, antiviral therapy, FAQs, counselling guidelines for health workers and links to related websites.

Communicable Diseases Australia

This site makes accessible a range of timely publications on communicable disease epidemiology in Australia. Includes the publication "Communicable Diseases Intelligence", one part of which is the National Surveillance Reports relating to STDs.

Genital warts treatment

The Treat genital warts.org site provides comprehensive information on genital warts symptoms and treatments.

Hepatitis C Council of SA

A site providing comprehensive information on Hepatitis C including an overview of the disease, FAQs, testing, liver biopsy, treatment, dealing with discrimination and where to find additional resources.

SHine SA

The website of a South Australian sexual health information and education service whose aim is to "promote sexual health and to celebrate sexuality". Contains detailed information on a range of STDs and on the organisation's programs, projects and services. Also provides excellent links to other sites.

STD Services

A South Australian service based at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. This site provides comprehensive STD information and the latest statistics, including the Quarterly Surveillance Reports for South Australia. Health professionals and students will find useful the sections on prevention, diagnosis and management as well as the patient information pamphlets, bulletins, clinical photos and bibliography of recent journal articles on the topic.

International sites

New Zealand HPV Project

A project seeking to educate the public and health professionals about the incidence, transmission and management of genital HPV (or genital warts). This site has detailed information about the condition, guidelines for its medical management and links to related New Zealand websites.

 

WHO Initiative on HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections (HSI)

This sites provides the global picture on STD epidemiology. It contains detailed information in the form of factsheets, a large collection of fulltext documents on the issues, statistics by country, guidelines for STD surveillance, reporting and partner notification and slide presentations.