Sexual Health

Course Overview This one-hour eLearning provides a concise overview of the key components of STI management and care and provides a framework for dealing with a sexual health consult in your practice. This series consists of five short modules which cover topics such as the epidemiology, natural history, and transmission of the most common sexually …

Sexual Health Fundamentals  Read More »

Course Overview This online learning module is designed to provide midwives and clinicians providing antenatal care in NSW, with the tools to identify priority populations for antenatal syphilis testing in their practice, and distinguish the stages of syphilis infection based on a patient’s history and clinical presentation. This one-hour learning module will outline treatment guidelines …

NSW Introduction to Syphilis for Midwives and Clinicians Providing Antenatal Care Read More »

There is an ongoing outbreak of infectious syphilis in central and northern Australia among priority populations including young Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples and women of childbearing age. The current declared outbreak regions include rural and remote areas in Queensland, Northern Territory, Western Australia, and South Australia. Notification rates are also increasing significantly in …

Syphilis Outbreak Training Website Read More »

This course has been developed to provide primary health care nurses and midwives with an understanding of the most common sexually transmissible infections (STIs) – chlamydia, gonorrhoea, syphilis, hepatitis A and blood borne viruses (BBVs) – hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV. Course aims This course aims to provide primary health care nurses with information …

STIs and BBVs: Nursing and Midwifery Module Read More »

Sexually transmissible infections (STIs) are significant public health concerns in Western Australia. Practitioners in general practice and primary care settings have a pivotal role in the diagnosis of STIs, including through increased opportunistic screening, and in providing on-going management and follow up for people and their partners.   These online modules will support Western Australian primary care providers to confidently discuss sexual health …

STI Testing in Primary Care: Western Australia Read More »

This recorded webinar provides midwives with an overview of STIs in pregnancy, including information related to testing, diagnosis, treatment, ongoing management, and contact tracing. This activity has been endorsed by the Australian College of Midwives, with completion entitling eligible participants to claim 1 CPD hour. A certificate will be provided.