Your Best Defence: Keeping an eye on STIs

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: