Safe Sex

Follow the links below to find information on safe sex and how to protect yourself and your partner.

Updated Sept 2007

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Title:   Interventions for encouraging sexual lifestyles and behaviours intended to prevent cervical cancer
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Cancer of the cervix is one of the most common cancers affecting women world-wide. Educating women to adopt lifestyle and behaviours such as condom use, avoiding early intercourse for young women, reducing the number of sexual partners and how to negoti...
Date:   Jun 1999
Title:   Taking care of your sexual health
Publisher:   Inspire Foundation
Description:   If you are sexually active, it is important to have regular visits to a health practitioner to have sexual health checks. This factsheet includes information about what happens and what questions you might like to ask.
Date:   Jul 2008
Title:   Systematic Reviews on the Prevention of HIV and AIDS
Publisher:   HealthInsite Topic Page
Description:   Links to systematic reviews of studies relating to the prevention of HIV and AIDS
Date:   Sep 2008
Title:   Prevention of AIDS and HIV
Publisher:   HealthInsite Topic Page
Description:   Links to information about how to prevent HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) infection and AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome).
Date:   Sep 2008
Title:   Safe sex
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   'Safe sex' is having sexual contact while minimising the risk that you will get a sexually transmissible infection (STI). Sexual contact that doesn't involve the exchange of semen, vaginal fluids or blood between partners is considered to be safe sex. If used correctly, condoms can dramatically reduce the risk of most sexually transmitted infections and unwanted pregnancy.
Date:   Jul 2008
Title:   HIV and women - safe sex
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   In some relationships, one partner is HIV positive and the other is not. This can raise a number of issues such as how to have sex safely. Finding out more about what is safe, talking to others with experience or talking with a counsellor may be helpful.
Date:   Feb 2007
Title:   HIV and men - safe sex
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   In some relationships, one partner is HIV positive and the other is not. This can raise a number of issues such as how to have sex safely.
Date:   Feb 2007
Title:   Safe sex
Publisher:   The Jean Hailes Foundation for Women's Health
Description:   Sex can be part of any stage of a woman's life. Many women may not have a partner, some may be in same-sex relationships or may have a partner with ill health.
Date:   Jul 2005
Title:   Safer sex
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   If you're sexually active or thinking about having sex, information that will help you make the right choices. it's really important to make sure it is safer sex.
Date:   Oct 2008
Title:   Sex education - talking to teenagers
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Many parents and carers feel shy about discussing sex with their children. Your teenager needs accurate information if they are to negotiate sexual relationships safely and responsibly. Sex education should cover a variety of topics including the biology of sex and reproduction, relationships, sexuality, contraception and STIs.
Date:   Jan 2008
Title:   Sex - are you ready
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   It's normal to have a lot of mixed feelings about sex. Don't let anyone intimidate you into having sex. If you decide to have sex, talk to your doctor or go to a Family Planning Association clinic to find out about preventing unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmissible infections.
Date:   Mar 2008
Title:   Aboriginal health - sexually transmissible infections
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Indigenous Australians have a higher rate of sexually transmissible infection (STI) than the rest of the community. The most common STIs among Aboriginal people include chlamydia, gonorrhoea and syphilis. Sex education, safe sex and condom use can be difficult messages to spread.
Date:   Sep 2007
Title:   Safe partying
Publisher:   Inspire Foundation
Description:   Wanting to go out and party is a normal rite of passage for most young people. There are a few simple things that you can do to have fun in a safe way. Check out this fact sheet for more info.
Date:   Oct 2008
Title:   Thinking about having sex?
Publisher:   Inspire Foundation
Description:   This fact sheet has information about deciding when to have a sexual relationship and having safe sex.
Date:   Jul 2008
Title:   Unprotected sex
Publisher:   Queensland Health
Description:   Sometimes people feel that having unprotected sex enhances their experience of intimacy with their partner. While this may be the case, unprotected sex can involve risks. These include unintended pregnancies, and the transmission of sexually transmissible infections (STIs).
Date:   Aug 2008
Title:   Hepatitis C and sexual transmission: does it occur?
Publisher:   myDr
Description:   Although there's some uncertainty about hepatitis C being transmitted sexually, it's not classified as an STD.
Date:   May 2007
Title:   Thinking about having sex for the first time
Publisher:   Inspire Foundation
Description:   There is no right or wrong time to become sexually active - it varies for each person. This factsheet includes information about why you might or might not decide to become sexually active, facts about first time sex and what happens after you have sex.
Date:   Jul 2008
Title:   Teenagers - sexual behaviour
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   This is a snapshot of the sexual behaviour of young people in Australia. Unsafe sex practices and unwanted pregnancy are significant health issues for Australian teenagers.
Date:   Jul 2008
Title:   Facts about sex
Publisher:   inspire foundation
Description:   It is easy to be confused about sex. There are so many mixed messages and myths surrounding it - it is not easy to tell what is right and what is not. This factsheet sets the record straight on some of the most common questions.
Date:   Jul 2008
Title:   Are you ready for sex?
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Young people can feel a lot of pressure to have sex. Friends may tell you they're all doing it (sometimes even if they're not), and you see it on the TV and in the movies. You might also feel pressured by a particular person,
Date:   Dec 2007
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