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HIV criminal protocols change unlikely
There’ll be no changes to the way the Department of Health refers individuals putting others at risk of HIV to police, Victorian Health Minister Daniel Andrews said. The comment follows calls ... Read more
Fri December 11th, 2009 - 1 Comment
ACON wins Human Rights Award
The work of ACON, Australia’s largest community-based gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) health and HIV organisation, has been recognised with an Australian Human Rights Award. The Human ... Read more
Thu December 10th, 2009 - 1 Comment
Buckets of cash for HIV
Oz Showbiz Cares/Equity Fights AIDS raised more than $54,000 for a handful of national HIV charities in a week. The organisation held bucket collections outside performances of Wicked, Mamma Mia! and ... Read more
Wed December 9th, 2009 - No Comments
Letters
CONGRATULATIONS #1 When the first issue of Sydney Star Observer was published over 30 years ago, Sydney’s gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community was slowing emerging. Just three years later, HIV/AIDS began ... Read more
Wed December 9th, 2009 - No Comments
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Indian advocate speaks
Sydney Star Observer’s Andrew Potts spoke to Anand Grover, UN Special Rapporteur on Health and Director of the Lawyers Collective HIV/AIDS Unit for India about his role as the lawyer ... Read more
Wed December 9th, 2009 - 1 Comment
Look who dropped in for lunch
Governor-General Quentin Bryce was the guest of honour at the Luncheon Club’s World AIDS Day commemorations. Her Excellency joined NSW Governor and long-time Luncheon Club supporter, Marie Bashir, for the ... Read more
Wed December 9th, 2009 - No Comments
Pass the lube, I’m on Facebook
In the Facebook demographic, I sit towards the older end. It’s supposed to be a Gen Y thing. A 19-year-old invented it. (You’d never guess!) He was at Harvard, and ... Read more
Tue September 15th, 2009 - 6 Comments
Lowest HIV rate in a decade
Australia’s HIV infection rate has levelled off for the first time in a decade. Figures to be released tomorrow at the Australasian HIV/AIDS Conference will show that the rate of HIV ... Read more
Wed September 9th, 2009 - 14 Comments
Date set for annual Food and Wine Fair
The annual AIDS Trust Food and Wine Fair will be held on Saturday, October 31. Don't let the unusual October date fool you, gourmet food lovers and supporters of the AIDS ... Read more
Tue July 21st, 2009 - 1 Comment
Clutch your pearls, we’re thirty
This week Sydney Star Observer celebrates 30 years of publishing. We are the oldest gay and lesbian newspaper not only in Australia, but in the southern hemisphere. For 30 years we ... Read more
Tue July 7th, 2009 - 6 Comments
New growth for live memorial
It's time to get the shovel and watering can out for the Sydney Park AIDS (SPAIDS) Memorial Grove tree-planting day. This year the planting coincides with National Tree Day on ... Read more
Tue June 30th, 2009 - 2 Comments
The power of language
By: Robert Mitchell An article published in the SSO on 28 May (-˜AIDS has had its day') said that NAPWA is advocating for a change in the language used to describe ... Read more
Tue June 9th, 2009 - 3 Comments
-˜AIDS’ has had its day
The National Association of People Living with HIV/AIDS wants people, particularly the media, to stop using the terms -˜AIDS' and -˜PLWHA' in favour of words with less stigma. The peak body ... Read more
Tue May 26th, 2009 - 6 Comments
Got the flu yet, Babe?
A new enemy has been identified. Snuffling up to join Asian Birds and Mad Cows are today's trendsetters, Rotten Swine. Bill Bowtell, one of the main architects of Australia's swift ... Read more
Tue May 5th, 2009 - 2 Comments
New HIV drug in US
American studies have found a new cosmetic drug, Aquamid, to be effective in the treatment of HIV-related lipoatrophy. A four-year study into the use of Aquamid, reported in this month's AIDS ... Read more
Tue May 5th, 2009 - No Comments
Aiming for equal ground in Sri Lanka
At an AIDS conference in Colombo in 2007, the Sri Lankan health minister, Nimal Siripala de Silva said, I don't want people to think I brought all of these people ... Read more
Tue April 28th, 2009 - 1 Comment
AIDS Trust takes corporate approach
The new AIDS Trust of Australia's chief executive officer's fundraising experience may pertain to school and sports club needs, but with more than 20 years experience in the banking field ... Read more
Tue April 14th, 2009 - 1 Comment
Worst…Pope…ever
It's hard to decide whether Pope Benedict XVI is the worst pontiff ever, or the best thing to happen to Catholicism in years. Following hot on the heels of a bizarre ... Read more
Wed March 25th, 2009 - 8 Comments
Cultre city
You know who I feel sorry for? Jack Brown, a Melbourne entrepreneur who moved to Sydney to take advantage of our new attempt to look cool. Brown has applied to ... Read more
Wed February 25th, 2009 - No Comments
Obama-rama goes gay
Last Tuesday, many Australians set their clocks for unheard-of hours of the morning to watch that long awaited moment when George Bush exited stage left care of Air Force One ... Read more
Wed January 28th, 2009 - No Comments
Time for a real Pacific solution
Sexual minority groups from the South Pacific are learning how to advocate for greater resources in the fight against HIV, thanks to an AusAID-sponsored fellowship which has ACON playing teacher. Members ... Read more
Wed November 5th, 2008 - 1 Comment
Guilty verdict: Neal
ANDIE NOONAN www.bnews.net.au Melbourne man Michael Neal has been found guilty of 15 charges, including attempting to infect another person with HIV, rape, reckless conduct endangering a person and sexual penetration by ... Read more
Wed August 13th, 2008 - 2 Comments
Call to release HIV doctors
Organisers of the International AIDS conference in Mexico City this week called for the release of two HIV-specialist doctors held by the Iranian Government. Kamiar Alaei and Arash Alaei, both Iranian ... Read more
Wed August 6th, 2008 - No Comments
HIV study warning
The number of new HIV infections in serodiscordant couples could quadruple over the next 10 years if people begin following advice from the Swiss Federal Commission for HIV/AIDS, says a ... Read more
Wed July 30th, 2008 - No Comments
Current Issue
Gay composer’s
Contemporary classical and chamber music composer Peter Urquhart will premiere his Fellowship Quartets, Water to Air for Solo Piano, at St John’s Anglican Church on March 26. His music expresses the ups and downs ... Read more
Come come out, wherever you are
I love Saturday mornings, there are always delicious daddies out and about. Whether it’s ... Read more
Heaven introduces bells
Your Westie Divas will launch their new show, Drags can hear the bells, at ... Read more
Love and art is all you need ths IDAHO
Calling all artists interested in taking part in this year’s IDAHO exhibition. Held each year ... Read more
Playtime
Boys NAKED BARBER Looking for a close shave? The Naked Barber is a men’s mobile ... Read more
Disappointed in Abbott
The NSW Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby is incredibly disappointed by recent homophobic statements ... Read more