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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. read more »

Recent reporting of HIV transmission cases in Australian media has shown the ignorance of many commentators of the comprehensive detail of systems and procedures for management of people who put other sat risk, which in the majority of cases are effective at reducing risks to the community.  read more »

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. watch video »

NAPWHA 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. read more »

Following the Australian Health Ministers’ Conference on 22 April, all states and territories along with the Commonwealth have endorsed the five new national strategies for blood-borne virusesA small infective organism which is incapable of reproducing outside a host cell. (BBVs) and sexually transmissible infections (STIs[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). ).

NAPWHA participated in the drafting and development process, along with other stakeholders in the HIV partnership. read more »

HIV futures six: Making positive lives count, a national survey of the health and wellbeing of HIV positive people, has been published.

Produced by the Living with HIV Program, part of The Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society at La Trobe University, it can be viewed at the HIV Futures website: www.latrobe.edu.au/hivfutures read more »

UNITAID, the international finance mechanism for drugs to treat HIV, tuberculosis and malaria, has given the go-ahead for a patent pool for antiretroviralA medication or other substance which is active against retroviruses such as HIV. drugs, a mechanism to promote wider licensing of patented drugs to generic manufacturers, in order to lower the cost of treatment. read more »

PRO 2000, the microbicide gel, has failed to protect women against HIV infection in the largest microbicide study to date. read more »

Why would anyone choose to specialise in HIV medicine? And what possible incentives are there to make you stay? These are questions you may well have contemplated while sitting in your own doctor’s waiting room. read more »

Increasing access to antiretroviralA medication or other substance which is active against retroviruses such as HIV. therapy is finally starting to have a positive impact on the global epidemic. read more »