Posts tagged WAD

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Blue Ribbon Boys is a campaign that sees qualified Hornet users granted a blue ribbon icon on their profile photo, signifying their personal commitment to sexual health regardless of their HIV status.

3700 people in NSW being eligible to receive PrEP by early 2016 will not only reduce new HIV transmissions but should also pressure the rest of Australia to follow suit.

World AIDS Day was established in 1988 to mourn and honour the lives of those lost to AIDS-related illnesses, as well as to help raise awareness about HIV and AIDS globally. The day has grown to one that also aims to tackle stigma and raise awareness on needed legal reforms and treatment access. Brent Allan looks to the future of Australia’s response to HIV.

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.

When it comes to Australia’s HIV community, it is essentially a gay man’s world. For this month’s segment on unsung community champions Matthew Wade spoke to Christabel Millar, who has advocated to increase the visibility of and tackle the stigma around women living with HIV.

Earlier this year, Paul Kidd played a pivotal role in the campaign that led to the Victorian Government repealing a law which criminalised the transmission of HIV. As part of the Star Observer’s regular segment of notable coming out stories, the long time HIV activist tells Matthew Wade how his early days of disclosing his HIV status influenced his advocacy work.

Discrimination against people living with HIV is a crime by government law, yet 81 per cent of Australians think they are still treated as outcasts. How will the discrimination be tackled now that HIV notifications are increasing? Nina Bjordal reports.

AS preparations are finalised for yet another World AIDS Day on December 1, many across the HIV sector are looking ahead to how to successfully …

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 …