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The deadline for completing the HIV Futures 7 survey has been extended to April 1, 2012.

This anonymous survey is a very important way that service providers and researchers can learn about changing trends in the lives of HIV positive Australians.

Go to www.hivfutures.org.au and fill in the anonymous survey. read more »

HIV Futures is a national survey of Australian people living with HIV conducted every two years by the Living with HIV program at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society at La Trobe University.

It is an anonymous survey asking important questions about the health, treatments, work and financial situations of people with HIV in Australia. read more »

HIV futures six: Making positive lives count, a national survey of the health and wellbeing of HIV positive people, has been published.

Produced by the Living with HIV Program, part of The Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society at La Trobe University, it can be viewed at the HIV Futures website: www.latrobe.edu.au/hivfutures read more »

People living with HIV are doing better on treatments and are more likely to be in employment than they were two years ago, but many are still living in poverty and increasingly concerned about the long-term impact of HIV treatments, according to the latest HIV Futures report. read more »

It’s time to bring people living with HIV/AIDS more closely into the social research which seeks to understand their lives, writes JOHN RULE. read more »

The annual conference of the Australasian Society for HIV Medicine (ASHMAustralasian Society for HIV Medicine. The peak Australasian organisation representing the medical and health sector in HIV/AIDS and related areas. ) was held in Hobart, Tasmania, from 24-27 August. read more »

Our lives as positive people are constantly under scrutiny by researchers. The resulting research reports may talk about our quality of life, but do they add to it? JOHN RULE reports on the business of ‘meaning making’. read more »