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ART Use or Non Use – Share Your Views on HIV Treatment

We know that living with HIV can bring about some challenges and some decisions to be made along the way. One of those decisions is about HIV antiretroviral treatment. Whilst HIV treatment has unequivocally been shown to be the only way …

THAT’S PRIVATE! Privacy and confidentiality protections

How is my personal information protected from onward disclosure or abuse?  This question rings true for PLHIV, especially about the protection of HIV status. A common misconception is that there are many robust legal mechanisms that can address wrongful, careless or …

Oral Sex, HIV and STIs

A common question asked by community members is about the risk of HIV from oral sex.  To put it as simply as possible, there is much less risk in oral sex as there is for anal or vaginal sex, but it …

Sharing a Story

This is an adaptation of an article written by Jesse Hooper that was submitted and included in the NAPWHA special publication “Through our eyes” marking the 30 year history of HIV in Australia. I reflect on those that came before us. …

Intellectual Property and the 90-90-90 Crisis

The 20th International AIDS Conference (AIDS2014) held in Melbourne this year called for countries to work together towards the latest target of “90-90-90” including the reach of antiretroviral therapy to 20 million people by 2020. Therefore, it was not surprising that AIDS2014 …

Women Want PrEP too – Using International Research To Ensure Australia Is Ready

While men who have sex with men (MSM) account for the largest percentage of new HIV diagnoses in Queensland every year, the number of women being diagnosed is also increasing. Between 2000 and 2010 in Australia, the number of females living …