One of the early opportunistic infections in people living with HIV is oral thrush, also called oral candidiasis caused by a fungus that can invade the inside of the mouth and throat. It is ...

Discover why syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, HIV and mycoplasma genitalium rates continue rising despite prevention efforts ...

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Alaska is seeing a dangerous gonorrhea outbreak, while the CDC's STD lab and field staff have been cut. What happens to sexual health when states lose their first line of defense?

In a clinical trial, the UTI drug gepotidacin cleared infections in 93% of cases, performing just as well as the current ...

An HIV infection attacks and destroys immune ... an infection that occurs at the same time as or right after a strep throat infection, since it’s caused by the same bacteria.

TD Richard Boyd Barrett is stepping back from politics to undergo treatment for HPV-related cancer. Should adults consider ...

Annie Knight has become known as Australia’s most sexually active woman, but she says she takes her health down there ...

A recent study offers a promising sign in syphilis incidence, a preventable and curable STI that has been surging across the ...

It starts with a fever (over 101°F), cough, sore throat, runny nose and watery red eyes. Loss of appetite, diarrhea and ear ...

March 24, 2025, was set aside by the World Health Organisation as World Tuberculosis Day to commemorate the day in 1882 when one of the true giants of early medicine, Dr Robert Koch, announced his ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said measles is back, and it’s a wake-up ...