What is causing this risk?
-Sites such as tinder https://tinder.com and grinder https://www.grindr.com/ facilitate connecting sexually active people and have resulted in larger sexually connected networks.
-Lack of or incorrect use of condoms.
-Lack of safe sexual partner selection (through testing)
-Increasing numbers of young travellers and illegal sex workers arriving into NZ. Many illegal sex workers are arriving on student visas and then working without regulation within major city centres such as Auckland and Wellington.
-Increased travel to STI risk destinations such as Thailand and Latin America.
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