NAPWA

In this current climate of pro-treatment, people who are not taking antiretroviralA medication or other substance which is active against retroviruses such as HIV. therapy (ART) can feel like a minority whose voice is not being heard.

This is why NAPWHA has partnered with researchers Limin Mao and Henrike Körner from the National Centre in HIV Social Research to conduct interviews with people who are currently not on ART. read more »

For a while now, we have been referring to ourselves as ‘people living with HIV’ or ‘people with HIV’ and encouraging others to do the same. All the time, however, the name of our organisation has remained the national Association of people living with hiv/AiDs. read more »

Up till now, various reports have suggested that up to 70% of people in Australia were taking HIV treatment.

However, David Wilson, Head of the Surveillance and Evaluation Program for Public Health, from the Kirby Institute in NSW, claims that recent analysis shows this figure could be as low as 50%. read more »

Last year, hiv diagnoses rose in Australia by 8.2%. that amounts to 1137 new cases total — up 86 from 2010 — and the highest number since 1992.

Given the direction we want transmission statistics to be heading, this news came as a bit of a disappointment when it was announced at the conference in Melbourne. read more »

An important part of the Australasian HIV/AIDS Conference was the launch of the Melbourne Declaration 2012. The document was developed by all the national peak HIV organisations and represents our collective position on the priority actions Australia needs to take in order to meet the targets set by the 2011 United Nations Political Declaration on HIV. read more »

The National Association of People With HIV Australia (NAPWHA) welcomes the release of a new UN report showing that acceleration in the global response is producing positive results. This comes as countries approach the 1000 day deadline to achieve global HIV prevention and treatment targets set last year under the 2011 UN Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS—a declaration that Australia helped champion. read more »

On the eve of the world’s largest gathering of AIDS researchers, activists and policy makers, NAPWHA is calling on the Australian Government to show greater leadership in international efforts to finally end the global AIDS epidemic. read more »

The National Association of People Living with HIV/AIDS (NAPWHA) is today calling for our nation to commit to adopting new technology to fight HIV transmission, with the goal of eliminating transmission and new diagnoses before the end of the decade. read more »

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. read more »

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. read more »