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....
Halkitis pointed to potential wariness toward the vaccine from PLWH who lived through the AIDS epidemic and early days of antiretroviral therapies (ARTs). Even without quantifiable data, there is good reason why anyone who was required to use the first generation of ART might feel hesitant toward vaccinations....
The NSW HIV Strategy 2021-2025, launched in February 2021, continues the commitment to achieving the virtual elimination of HIV transmission in NSW by 2025, building on the success of the NSW HIV Strategy 2016-2020. To make new gains, the Strategy will address barriers created by stigma and encourage ongoing innovation. From Brad Hazzard MP, Minister for...
HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) is a virus that attacks cells that help the body fight infection, making a person more vulnerable to other infections and diseases. It is spread by contact with certain bodily fluids of a person with HIV, most commonly during unprotected sex (sex without a condom or HIV medicine to prevent or...