As Australia’s coronavirus death toll rises to 12 and confirmed cases to 2,799, Thorne Harbour Health (formerly the Victorian AIDS Council) has a stark message for the LGBTQI+ community: “Stop having casual sex”.
The organisation, formed in 1983, said that this was the first time in its history, that it was issuing such an advisory to the community. “We’re faced by an unprecedented global health crisis.
While COVID-19 is not a sexually transmitted infection, the close personal contact we have when during sex poses a serious risk of COVID-19 transmission.
We need people to stop having casual sex at this stage,” Simon Ruth, CEO of THH. “But after four decades of sexual health promotion, we know abstinence isn’t a realistic strategy for most
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