Improving Access to PrEP for Migrants Should be a Priority
By Dr Horas Wong The federal government recently marked this year’s World AIDS Day by announcing funding of $39 million to improve access to HIV …
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Australia Can End HIV Transmission by 2025, Say AIDS Researchers
Australian advocacy organisations and researchers have called on the government to set a new goal to end HIV transmission in the country in four short …
Condom use plunges In Australia, PrEP Steps Up
Even as condom use plunges in Australian men who have sex with men, the rapid roll-out and affectionate embrace of the HIV prevention medication PrEP …
“We didn’t know what was coming”: AIDS in Australia
On the evening of December 1, 1988, the first ever World AIDS Day, hundreds of people packed into the Martin Place amphitheatre in Sydney for …
To end HIV, it’s imperative no one gets left behind
When World AIDS Day was first held in 1988, it was a time of adversity, devastation and grief. Our communities were engulfed by the HIV …
Rainbow Labor break ranks over mandatory HIV blood testing policy
The LGBTQI caucus of the Australian Labor Party has broken ranks with NSW Labor and NSW Opposition leader Jodi McKay over its support for a …
HIV transmissions in NSW drop 17 per cent as HIV self-test becomes available
The latest data showed 33 per cent fewer new HIV diagnoses among Australia-born men who have sex with men (MSM) in 2018, but just 3 per cent fewer among overseas-born MSM.
World first study to explore experiences of people recently diagnosed with HIV
“By engaging with the experiences of people who have recently been diagnosed with HIV, we’re hoping to find out why some people living with HIV today experience better care and wellbeing outcomes than others”
Volunteers sought for World AIDS Day Red Ribbon Appeal
“Even with tremendous progress being made, we cannot afford to lose focus, we must continue to work together to reduce HIV transmissions.”
PrEP trial sees HIV transmissions in NSW drop to lowest rate since 1985
“The speed of the decline we’ve seen in new HIV infections in gay and bisexual men is a world first.”