World AIDS Day 2015 in Melbourne saw HIV researchers and scientists, alongside those living with HIV, come together to discuss the future of the virus and remember the lives lost to the epidemic.
News of a new Senate motion to look at fast tracking access to PrEP comes just as a new poster campaign is launched in Melbourne and Sydney by the same anonymous group behind the controversial “you can fuck raw” campaign in September.
France become the second country in the world, but the first with universal health care to approve PrEP. This could be good news for Australia.
This year World AIDS Day promises to be a big one, with an AIDS 2014-inspired event in Melbourne bringing together the community in discussion around HIV.
THE Victorian AIDS Council (VAC) recently held a forum earlier this week to discuss HIV prevention and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) with a focus on the major …
PrEP’s success has been well-documented through global clinical trials and the impact it has had on the gay community since it was introduced in the US. Armed with this information, leading LGBTI health organisations in Australia — such as ACON — are now calling authorities to have PrEP approved and subsidised urgently, and there are simple reasons why. Matthew Wade reports.
Queensland AIDS Council will start offering assistance to people interested in undertaking PrEP through its Clinic 30 sexual health service, along with providing access to PEP medications.
Jillian Skinner says medications to prevent HIV need to be given the federal green light now if a target to eliminate new infections is to be met
