Your best defence: Keeping an eye on STIs
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Your best defence: Keeping an eye on STIs is Family Planning NSWs premier resource about sexually transmissible infections (STIs) for young people under 25 years old.
Brightly styled with an easy to navigate format, this resource was written and designed in consultation with young audiences to help ensure it delivers the most pertinent and valuable information.
Your best defence has 36 pages full of tailored content for young people including an overview of STIs, methods of STI prevention, what’s involved in a sexual health check and where to go to get tested.
The methods of STI prevention covered include:
- male condom
- female condom
- dam
plus much more information
Readers will find information about nine of the most prevalent STIs within Australia and presents youth specific information about each STI including:
- How is it passed on
- Symptoms
- How is it tested
- How is it treated
- How to prevent getting it
Your best defence also addresses the important issues of access to safe sex products and contraception, as well as confidentiality and the often tricky topic of sex and healthy relationships.
If you work with, or in a place frequented by, under 25 year olds you will find Your best defence is a valuable resource to have at the ready. It is useful for:
- youth workers
- sexual health workers
- high school PDHPE teachers
- Health Promotion workers
- doctors and nurses
- counsellors
- client waiting areas
The booklet is DL size. Suitable for: NSW, Australia.
Other FPNSW resources which may interest you:
Me Myself and I: Puberty Information for Everybody
Safe Sex Packs for Young People
You & Me = Us: All About Relationships
For more information about resources and services for young people, please contact:
Health Promotion
Phone: (02) 8752 4300
Email: healthpromotion@fpnsw.org.au
