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  • RapidTesting_HeRO
    Rapid testing goes regional

    Bendigo residents now have access to rapid HIV testing through a private clinic, with hopes the new technology will improve testing rates in the regional city and surrounding areas. Rapid HIV testing drastically reduces the waiting time...

    • Posted 4 days ago
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    Give ‘em hell: Rudd

    Former prime minister Kevin Rudd has told a forum in Brisbane, held last week to protest the government’s funding cuts to the state’s largest sexual health clinic, to “give ‘em hell” and continue fighting for health care...

    • Posted 5 days ago
  • HIV-budding-Color
    Danish HIV breakthrough

    A new technique being trialled by Danish researchers could represent the closest science has ever come to developing a cure for HIV/AIDS. The method involves activating the hidden reservoirs of HIV virus that remain dormant in a...

    • Posted 11 days ago
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    These dolls mean business

    The innovative Toy to the World project has donated $4000 to the Victorian AIDS Council after its second successful exhibition this year. The event brought together up to 200 artists to unleash their creativity on 200 blank...

    • Posted 17 days ago
  • Featured steps
    Taking steps towards the end of AIDS

    A Tanzanian designer has taken out the global competition to design the logo for next year’s International AIDS Conference in Melbourne. The new logo by Yohana Longinus Haule, 22, from Dar El Salaam, Tanzania was announced last...

    • Posted 17 days ago
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    Sexual health clinic cutbacks “appalling”

    An independent audit has been ordered to investigate required staffing numbers to ensure there will be “no change” to HIV services at the embattled Biala sexual health clinic. Last week news of Biala’s closure and miscommunication, “misinterpretation”...

    • Posted 47 days ago
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    Infections “will spread” if clinic jobs go

    Claims by the head of Queensland’s Ministerial Advisory Committee (MAC) on HIV/AIDS that the HIV-specific clinic within the soon-to-be-closed Brisbane Sexual Health Clinic would be “unchanged” have been challenged by the news of further job losses. Fears...

    • Posted 52 days ago
  • AIDS-Ribbon
    Potential new treatment for HIV

    Australian biomedical research company Biotron Limited has announced preliminary results from a human trial of its lead antiviral drug BIT225 to treat HIV infection ‘hidden’ in reservoir precursor cells. The trial has demonstrated that BIT225 targets HIV...

    • Posted 54 days ago
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    Brisbane Sexual Health Clinic to close

    Brisbane’s Sexual Health Clinic on Roma Street, which offers services that explicitly deal with people living with HIV (PLHIV), will be effectively closed, the Metro North Hospital Board has announced. In a move that has already drawn...

    • Posted 59 days ago
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    First baby cured of HIV

    A baby girl born with HIV has been cured with very early treatment of antiretroviral drugs, US researchers announced on Sunday. In a medical first for an infant, the Mississippi toddler has offered new hope for babies...

    • Posted 73 days ago
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