Why don’t people disclose STIs to a sexual partner? Stigma has a lot to do with it
- Written by Alexandra James, Research Fellow, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University
SeventyFour/ShutterstockGlobally, more than 1 million curable sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are contracted every day in people aged 15–49. These include chlamydia, gonorrhoea and syphilis, among others.
In Australia, it’s estimated one in six people will receive an STI diagnosis in their lifetime – and the numbers ar...
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