Posts tagged Truvada

PrEP could be available at Australian pharmacies by as early as June this year.

If you live outside of Sydney’s inner city areas and want to know more about PrEP, ACON is hosting a series of forums for you to learn more.

The US and France are the only other countries to have formally approved pre-exposure prophylaxis, a pill used by HIV-negative gay men as a form of HIV prevention.

Following the recent decision to expand NSW’s PrEP trial, Victorian politicians and advocates have called on Premier Daniel Andrews and Health Minister Jill Hennessy to follow suit.

As we usher in a brand new year, the Star Observer reflects on some of the biggest LGBTI news stories of 2015 – from important law reforms to topics that had everyone talking.

IT’S now been 30 years since panic about AIDS culminated in a three-year-old girl with HIV being driven from her NSW Central Coast pre-school. Most Australians …

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.

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 …

Leading LGBTI community organisations and HIV activists have responded to the posters that have appeared around Melbourne today, while the group behind the campaign have also revealed themselves in a press statement.

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.