Given all the advances in healthcare accessibility in Australia, why should the sexual health of adolescents still be seen as a taboo topic?

India utilises the Beveridge healthcare model, where care for all individuals is provided and financed by the government through tax payments.

Each year, there are an estimated 376 million new infections of sexually transmitted diseases worldwide.

The absolutely tragic hand of fate dealt to Luana Costa was unfortunately not a shocking headline in Brazil. Luana Costa, an eleven-year-old girl, met her death only days after giving birth.

Imagine waking up as young woman to your first experience with your menstrual cycle and not knowing what was happening to your body, worse still, that your first thought was that of disease.

Inequalities placed on people with dementia are quite evident within Australia. Dementia impairs the normality of the brain to function and can affect memory, speech, mobility, and behaviour.

Australia has a world-class health care system that functioned well through the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, supported by lockdown measures.

I was talking to a colleague recently when she suggested that the success of North Korea’s COVID-19 management was due to a policy ordering anyone who tested positive to be shot.

Following South Korea’s commendable response to their first encounter with the Coronavirus (COVID-19) in January of 2020 (1), the nation now finds itself in a compromising position.

The ever-evolving nature of the COVID-19 situation has seen nations around the world grapple with finding the “correct” plan of attack, inevitably giving way to strategy missteps and miscalculations.

When considering the different responses to the coronavirus pandemic around the world, it is hard to ignore the unconventional position adopted by Sweden.

Considered two of the most successful healthcare systems globally, albeit, for different reasons, Sweden and Singapore have chosen dramatically different approaches when it comes to the COVID-19 response.

When we think of risk factors relating to the Covid-19 pandemic we may think of age or underlying health conditions, but for Americans, the biggest risk factor was President Trump.

The first known infection from SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) was discovered in Wuhan, China. On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 outbreak as a global pandemic.

It is an overused and boring cliché to say that “despite the great strides made in recent years, there is still a great stigma around mental health treatment, such as seeing a psychologist.”

Staring down the barrel of a camera wearing a balaclava, Caleb announced to the Australian public that their cities would be destroyed…