Globally, women represent 53% of all people living with HIV. Australia has been a world leader in maintaining a successful HIV response for our priority populations; men who have sex with men, sex workers and people who inject drugs. Even though historically in Australia women have represented a small number of new HIV notifications,...
The theme for this year’s World AIDS Day is "End Inequalities. End AIDS.". This means making sure the most vulnerable in our society have equal access to HIV information, care and support. It means challenging and fighting the stigma that keeps people living with HIV isolated, ashamed, and susceptible to poor mental health outcomes. It...
HIV hijacks the body’s own cellular immune response and turns the very T-cells that direct that response into its breeding ground – which means that the most basic types of vaccines, which use live but weakened versions of the same infection, could make HIV worse....
HIV diagnoses among gay and bisexual men have declined by more than 20 per cent in the five years to 2019, but rates of heterosexual transmission in Australia remain steady, and now represent approximately 21% of annual transmission. You might be surprised to learn that women make up around 11% of people living with HIV in...