National

• CARPA Remote Primary Health Care Manuals: have been developed by the Central Australian Rural Practitioners Association and partners to support and promote good clinical practice in primary health care in central, northern and remote Australia. The manuals are used by health care workers, remote area nurses, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health practitioners, doctors, midwives, nurse practitioners, and allied health professionals.
• Minymaku Kutju Tjukurpa Women’s Business Manual: developed by the Central Australian Rural Practitioners Association and partners and includes protocols for providing health care to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in remote Australia.
• Australian STI Management Guidelines: maintained by ASHM, these guidelines are an easily accessible online resource for primary health care professionals to guide STI risk assessment, testing, diagnosis and management. The Guidelines are recognised as an Accepted Clinical Resource by The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, and have been endorsed by the Australian Indigenous Doctors’ Association.
• Conducting Medical Consultations: developed by Flinders University and Charles Darwin University, this module aims to develop the telephone consultation skills of Remote Area Nurses.

Queensland

• Queensland Health website: includes current clinical guidelines on STIs and BBVs for Queensland as well as local information, with information on all aspects of contact tracing, referrals and links to national guidelines.
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adolescent sexual health guidelines: produced by Queensland Health, this booklet aims to provide health professionals with a guide to delivering culturally competent sexual health care to Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander young people.

South Australia

• SA Health website: includes current STI clinical guidelines for South Australia. They are written primarily for use by Clinic 275 staff (Royal Adelaide Hospital). Clinic 275 offers SA clinicians specialist advice on STIs, including HIV post-exposure prophylaxis.
• AHCSA Sexually Transmitted Infections & Blood-Borne Viruses Handbook for South Australian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services: is a handbook developed by the Aboriginal Health Council of South Australia to facilitate a standardised evidence-based approach

Western Australia

• Silver book – Guidelines for managing sexually transmitted infections and blood-borne viruses: is maintained by WA Health, and includes clinical guidelines for all clinicians and health care providers involved in the diagnosis and/or management of STIs and BBVs in Western Australia. They include evidence-based practice recommendations, and a range of patient and health professional resources.
• Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Services Clinical Protocols / Guidelines: include Sexual Health guidelines that aim to standardise the screening and management, taking into account extreme remoteness. Their purpose is to enable care to be initiated by a range of health care professionals working within their own scope of practice when direct access to specialists is limited.
• WA Sexual Health Orientation Manual for Endemic Regions: is a hard copy manual on common STIs and BBVs with practice scenarios to inform and enhance clinical practice. To order copies please email: shbbvp@health.wa.gov.au
• Quick Guide for STI Testing and Quick Guide for STI Management: hard copy resources designed to provide evidence-based practice recommendations for the treatment and management of STIs. To order copies please email: shbbvp@health.wa.gov.au. Electronic versions are available on the WA Department of Health’s Silver book using the links on the right side of the home page.
• Healthy Conversations: an audio-visual resource to provide guidance on discussing sexual health and blood-borne viruses with Aboriginal people.

Northern Territory

• NT Guidelines for the management of STI’s in a PHC setting: are designed to be used as a comprehensive reference guide for sexual health service delivery for primary health care clinicians, combining STI BBV testing, treatment and management sections of the Central Australian Rural Practitioners Association (CARPA) Standard Treatment Manual (STM), and the Women’s Business Manual (WBM).