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2024-12-02

  HIV and Syphilis Home Testing 101

Today we will discuss different types of HIV and Syphilis antibody testing performed at home by the patient or consumer. Home testing for HIV and Syphilis empower people, especially pregnant women who live in remote areas or are marginalised and hard t...
  BMJ Group author
2024-11-04

  To Screen or Not to Screen?

Today we will discuss if screening asymptomatic Men who have sex with Men, also referred to as MSM, who are receiving HIV pre-exposure anti-retroviral medication, called HIV PrEP, routinely for bacterial STIs, gonorrhoea and chlamydia through pharyngea...
  BMJ Group author
2024-07-04

  Novel antimicrobial approaches to Trichomoniasis

Today we provide you with an update on the sexually transmitted infection: Trichomonas vaginalis, a protozoan which infects the vagina, urethra and paraurethral glands. It is an uncommon cause of vaginal discharge and penile urethritis and can persist ...
  BMJ Group author
2024-04-04

  Revisiting gonorrhoea: Update on the 4CMenB vaccine for gonorrhoea prevention

You will recall a previous podcast about preventing Neisseria gonorrhoea through an effective vaccine. Neisseria gonorrhoeae is a ubiquitous sexually transmitted bacteria that can cause both localised and systemic disease if left untreated. It may be t...
  BMJ Group author
2024-03-01

  Beyond penicillin: are new antibiotics for syphilis on the horizon?

Today we will focus on the alternative treatments of early Syphilis. Worldwide many of us have experienced a shortage of gold standard treatment benzathine benzylpenicillin injections for syphilis. It is time we look for alternative antibiotic treatmen...
  BMJ Group author
2023-12-01

  WORLD AIDS DAY Pt 2: Growing Older with HIV

In our final episode in honour of the World AIDS Day we have a conversation with Assistant Prof. Rajasuriar, who coordinates the translational research program in HIV immunology and Ageing at the Centre of Excellence for Research in AIDS (CERiA) in Kua...
  BMJ Group author
2023-11-27

  WORLD AIDS DAY Pt 1: Managing HIV in Young People

Today we are honouring the World AIDS Day on 1st December in 2023, by focusing on young people who live with HIV. Adolescents and young people represent a significant share of people living with HIV worldwide. In 2022 alone, 255,000-760,000 young peopl...
  BMJ Group author
2023-09-18

  IAS23 Conference Feedback in Brisbane, Australia in July 2023

Welcome to the 4th episode of the 2023 BMJ Sexually Transmitted Infections Podcast Series. This year the International AIDS Society Conference was held for the first time in Brisbane Australia in July 2023. It was wonderful to learn about many new rese...
  BMJ Group author
2023-07-28

  World Hepatitis Day 2023: Unveiling the Hidden Threats of the Hepatitis B Virus

In honour of World Hepatitis Day, today we focus on the Hepatitis B virus (HBV), a virus that can be transmitted through contact with infected blood and from mother to child during labour. HBV can also be transmitted sexually. It infects liver cells an...
  BMJ Group author
2023-07-03

  A vaccine against gonorrhoea: Is it more than an aspiration?

Neisseria gonorrhoeae, in short NG, is a ubiquitous sexually transmitted bacteria that can cause both localised and systemic disease if left untreated. NG may also be transmitted vertically from mother to baby. Over the last years, we have seen a rise ...
  BMJ Group author