Sex

Sex, libido and HIV

If there is one issue that all HIV-positive people have to deal with, regardless of their level of health or whether they are on treatments or not, it’s sex. This article looks at the impact of HIV and HIV treatments on our sexual lives.

ASHM 2008: The Swiss Statement

Professor Pietro Vernazza, President of the Swiss Federal Commission on AIDS wasinvited by ASHM to Australia to debate the statement as part of a panel.

ASHM 2008: Viagra – risk factor or safe sex aid?

The use of Viagra (sildenafil citrate) and other sexuopharmaceuticals was the subject of a paper presented at ASHM.

Disclosing your HIV status: a guide to some of the legal issues

This booklet contains the relevant law on disclosure of HIV status as it applies in New South Wales as at 1 January 2008.

AIDS 2008: The Swiss Statement – the debate continues

The President of the Swiss Federal AIDS Commission, which produced the controversial statement on the effect of treatment of HIV transmission earlier this year, made some qualifications to the statement on a panel of experts at the International AIDS Conference in Mexico City.

HIV is a virus not a crime

"Criminalisation is not and has never been an effective public health response to HIV prevention," says a statement endorsed by NAPWA and other Australian community secor organisations.

First trial of microbicide in pregnant women

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh will commence a clinical trial on a vaginal microbicide incorporating the antiretroviral drug tenofovir in pregnant women.

Online survey on internet use and men's social and sexual lives

A new survey for gay, bisexual or same-sex- attracted men is now underway and inviting participants to join the online study and provide information which is investigating how internet use relates to different aspects of men's social and sexual lives.

Unprotected sex: who's responsible?

Is it acceptable to say that, in some situations, it is OK to look after your own interests when it comes to sex?

Media frenzy over positive sex worker

January and February this year were marked by a furore of sensationalist media about Hector Scott, a resident of the ACT who first appeared in the ACT Magistrates court charged with providing a commercial sexual service while knowing he was infected with a sexually transmitted disease (STD), and failing to register as a sex worker.