A surge in sexually transmitted infections has led to fears that teenagers have missed key sex education messages about condom use and testing while spending their final years of high school in remote learning.
last year. There were 34,600 reportable STIs recorded in Victoria last year, about 8000 more than in 2021. NSW recorded 39,000 reportable infections, 3700 more than the previous year.
“Testing is back to around a pre-COVID level, but because there is an increase in infections, we would really expect to see an increase in testing, and we haven’t,” she said. Students in years 11 and year 12, where sex education more commonly takes the form of incursions and school visits rather than assessable class work, were more likely to report their sex education had been cancelled than those in years 9 and 10.
NSW Health describes antimicrobial resistant gonorrhoea as an “emerging public health issue”, with strains resistant to all types of antibiotics used to treat the infection reported.
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