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Evoca Women’s Health: Recent updates in STI management in women

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Date & Time

Wednesday 21st August 2024 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Venue

Online, ZOOM

Event Category

External event

Organiser

Evoca Women's Health

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Date

Wednesday 21st August 2024 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Venue

ZOOM

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Evoca Women’s Health are delighted to invite you to join their next session in the Evoca Education series presented by Dr Ros Foster.

Key points the webinar will cover:

  • Antibiotic resistance in bacterial STIs
  • Increased syphilis notifications in Australia
  • HSV suppressive therapy – when to consider
  • ‘DoxyPEP’ syphilis – Post exposure prophylaxis with doxycycline
  • The mollicutes (mycoplasma and ureaplasma species – when to test and how to treat)
  • Recurrent thrush and how to manage
  • Menopause in hard to reach and underserved populations
  • The importance of using gender inclusive terminology,
  • particularly in women’s health
  • HIV indicator illnesses and testing
  • GSM – don’t forget to ask about arousal

Dr Ros Foster is a staff specialist sexual health physician, who completed higher specialist training in genitourinary medicine and HIV (Royal College of Physicians, UK) and in Sexual Health Medicine (Chapter of Sexual Health Medicine, RACP). She has worked in the field of sexual health since 2003 both in London and Sydney.

She works at Sydney Sexual Health Centre, a publicly funded sexual health service in Sydney CBD, and at Mounties Integrative Health Clinic in Freshwater, Sydney. She is also a conjoint senior lecturer in Sexual Health at UNSW. Ros has published over 40 peer reviewed journal articles and over 20 conference abstracts. She has an interest in all things sexual health, she is currently researching the impact of genitourinary syndrome of menopause in commercial
sex workers.

General practice Women's health

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