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.

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

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

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.

The ACT government’s handling of a case involving an alleged HIV-positive sex worker has been clumsy, alarmist and has failed to follow basic public health guidelines, the National Association of People Living with HIV/AIDS (NAPWA) has said.

This paper was prepared after a special session at the NAPWA General Meeting April 2007 where NAPWA members discussed their response to concerns over sensationalist media attention surrounding recent HIV transmission cases.

A policy paper outlining NAPWA's position on criminal prosecution for sexual transmission of HIV.

HIV infections are on the rise nationwide, and the government is planning an advertising blitz aimed at gay men. If HIV is making a comeback, should positive gay men care? And if we do care, what can we do?

HIV-related news in brief from the March 2007 edition of Positive Living.

In separate cases, two men – one each in NSW and Queensland – have received lengthy jail sentences after being found guilty of crimes related to transmission of HIV to their partners.