HIV in Australia

Our combo-prevention future

Graham Stocks — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 20:17:43 -0800

In his opening address at the conference, Graeme Brown, AFAO’s outgoing President, acknowledged the enormous challenges we are facing in Australia at the moment, midway through our Sixth National HIV Strategy.

Australia must do better on HIV

Graham Stocks — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 23:35:49 -0700

The Australasian HIV/AIDS Conference opened today in Canberra with a bold challenge for Australia to up its game and reduce transmissions of HIV amongst men who have sex with men, by 80 per cent by 2015.

NAPWA's policy on research

Graham Stocks — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 21:22:07 -0700

NAPWA regularly receives requests to endorse or support research in the area of HIV. Such support may take the form of active involvement as an investigatorA medical researcher in charge of carrying out a clinical trial's protocol., help in designing a research project or simply assistance with recruitment. NAPWA recognises the importance of research to improving the health and well-being of PLHIVPerson (or people) Living with HIV. This term is now preferred over the older PLWHA. and in most cases is willing to provide support where it is able.

ASHM Conference 2010 now on in Sydney

Graham Stocks — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:02:28 -0700

The Australasian HIV/AIDS Conference 2010 (22nd Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for HIV Medicine) is now on in Sydney, Again it is running back-to-back with the 2010 Australasian Sexual Health Conference with a full day of overlap on Wednesday 20 October 2010.

Inaugural World AIDS Day Dinner benefit to be held in Sydney, December 1 2010

Graham Stocks — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:13:13 -0700

On December 1, 2010 the first World AIDS Day Dinner (WADD) charity dinner will take place at Sydney, Australia’s Royal Randwick Race Course. A glamorous evening affair, the charity dinner will largely benefit Australia’s longest-running HIV charity, The Bobby Goldsmith Foundation with a portion of the proceeds from the live auction going to St. Vincent’s Hospital Patient Support Fund.

The gift of the Gabe

Graham Stocks — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:55:25 -0700

Katherine Leane's warm tribute to Gabe McCarthy who passed away on 30th June this year.

NSW out of step with national strategies

Graham Stocks — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 23:53:43 -0700

The federal government’s sixth national HIV and STI[Sexually Transmissible (or Transmitted) Infection] Infections spread by the transfer of organisms from person to person during sexual contact. Also called venereal disease (VD) (an older public health term) or sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). strategies have been welcomed for their human rights-based approach to HIV and the law and their focus on an ‘enabling environment’ to bring about positive change.

Sixth National HIV Strategy launched

Graham Stocks — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 23:34:54 -0700

While welcoming the launch late last month of the new HIV strategy, there is also concern within the sector that without effective implementation, the strategy’s goals cannot be achieved.

Launch of the Sixth National HIV Strategy (ABC News video)

Paul Kidd — Thu, 27 May 2010 15:44:07 -0700

AFAOAustralian Federation of AIDS Organisations. AFAO is the peak non-government organisation representing Australia's community-based response to HIV/AIDS. AFAO's work includes education, policy, advocacy and international projects. hosted the launch of the national HIV strategy by Parliamentary Secretary for Health Mark Butler. The initiative brings together state and federal governments to target communities with increasing HIV infection rates, including young Australians traveling overseas and indigenous communities struggling with injecting drug use.

Sixth National HIV Strategy launched, now it’s time to achieve those goals

Paul Kidd — Wed, 26 May 2010 16:50:06 -0700

NAPWA has welcomed the official launch of the Sixth National HIV Strategy this morning, but warned that without an effective implementation plan, the strategy’s goals cannot be achieved.