The Quicky25 Touko 2021

Riddled With Syphilis: The Other Epidemic Currently Affecting Aussies

While the whole world is focused on defeating COVID-19, it seems Aussies have become complacent when it comes to protecting ourselves against other diseases, which has led to a series of recent Syphilis outbreaks in Melbourne.

But this isn't the only sexually transmitted infection that is on the rise in both our cities and regional areas.

The Quicky speaks to two experts, and a mother who only found out she had an STI when she became pregnant, to find out why so many of us are being infected and often don't realise it until many years later when the damage has already been done.

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CREDITS

Host/Producer: Claire Murphy

Executive Producer: Siobhán Moran-McFarlane

Audio Producer: Ian Camilleri

Guests:

Associate Professor Christopher Fisher - Principal Research Fellow at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society at La Trobe University

Associate Professor Lyndell Lim - Head of the Ocular Immunology Clinic at the The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital

Teagan* - A mother who is living with HSV - aka genital herpes - and only found out she had the condition when she became pregnant

*Name has been changed for privacy.

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