Health professionals say they cannot adequately respond to the situation because of resourcing pressure and are calling on GPs and hospitals to do more testing.
, prompting the Health Service to declare a gonorrhoea outbreak.
"The long-term effects of sexually transmitted infections are things like pelvic inflammatory disease, infertility, passing the infection onto babies and opening the door for infections like HIV. "Those people typically have reasonably chaotic lives and with that automatically comes an increased risk of sexual risk-taking behaviours," Ms Pini said.
She said a client might be difficult to find because they were a domestic violence victim, homeless, or dealing with intergenerational trauma."They only come to us when there's a problem."Ms Pini said HIV was the only STI that was not curable, but noted it was manageable."When these clients come to see us, if they have symptoms, we tend to treat them on the spot," Ms Pini said.
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