The Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) has recommended monkeypox vaccines for key risk groups, including gay, bisexual and men who have sex with men who are at high risk of exposure.
A government minister has made it clear that the current definition of marriage will be protected from any review on the decriminalisation of homosexuality.
A new Australian study published in The Lancet Infectious Disease Journal has shown that rates of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) among users of Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), which prevents HIV, stabilised rather than increased following implementation of the oral medication.
Several months after community transmission of Monkeypox in non-endemic countries was established, the World Health Organisation has declared that the continuing spread of Monkeypox is now a public health emergency of international concern.