- What is sexual health? - What is safe sex? - Sexual health
checks - Sexually transmissible infections (STI's) Sexually
transmissible infections (STI's) Sexually transmissible
infections (STIs) are infections that can be passed on from one
person to another during sex. The most common STIs in Australia
are genital herpes, genital warts, chlamydia, trichomoniasis,
gonorrhoea, hepatitis B, syphilis, and HIV. Find out more about
these and other STIs - Bacterial vaginosis - Crabs/pubic lice -
Genital herpes - Genital warts / HPV infection - Hepatitis A -
Hepatitis B - Hepatitis C - Non-specific urethritis How do you
get an STI? If you have had unprotected sex, you may be at risk
of an STI. STIs can be passed from person to person through: -
vaginal, oral and anal sex - close skin-to-skin sexual contact
(eg. foreplay, touching the genitals, mutual masturbation) -
direct blood-to-blood contact - pregnancy or childbirth (from
mother to child) - sharing injecting drug equipment. Using
condoms reduces the spread of m