NAPWA

While building on the successful previous plans, NAPWHA's Strategic Plan for 2013-2016 has evolved through consultation and review, to place greater emphasis on the collaborative work of our membership organisations and networks. read more »

A review of HIV surveillance, clinicalPertaining to or founded on observation and treatment of participants, as distinguished from theoretical or basic science. cohortIn epidemiologyThe branch of medical science that deals with the study of incidence and distribution and control of a disease in a population., a group of individuals with some characteristics in common. A cohort study is a special kind of clinical trialA clinical trial is a research study to answer specific questions about vaccines or new therapies or new ways of using known treatments. Clinical trials are used to determine whether new drugs or treatments are both safe and effective. Carefully conducted clinical trials are the fastest and safest way to find treatments that work in people. Trials are in four phases: Phase I tests a new drug or treatment in a small group; Phase II expands the study to a larger group of people; Phase III expands the study to an even larger group of people; and Phase IV takes place after the drug or treatment has been licensed and marketed. which looks at a treatment or treatment strategy in a cohort of people. and social research data suggests that many people living with HIV (PLHIVPerson (or people) Living with HIV. This term is now preferred over the older PLWHAPerson (or People) Living with HIV/AIDS..) in Australia delay, cease or do not take up HIV antriretroviral therapy (ART) due to structural and psychological barriers.

This paper is a Poster presented at the Australasian HIV/AIDS Conference, Melbourne, 2012 read more »

From the Executive Director's Report:

The benefits offered by today’s HIV treatments are considerable. The simple reality is that they now offer people the opportunity to live longer and healthier lives while significantly lowering the risk of transmission. read more »

Implementing the United Nations Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS in Australia’s Domestic Response: Turning Political Will into Action is a blueprint for reinvigorating the Australian response to HIV and has been prepared by a coalition of state and national groups, including NAPWHA, committed to fighting the disease. read more »

The global fight against AIDS has reached a defining moment. We now have the knowledge and the means to drive down new HIV infection rates, accelerate progress in reducing illness and deaths from HIV and for the first time contemplate an AIDS free generation. read more »

Over the past two years NAPWHA, in collaboration with the National Centre in HIV Social Research UNSW, has conducted social research into the experiences and effects of stigma on the lives of people living with HIV. What we found is both encouraging and challenging. read more »

2011 WAD saw the Positive Women’snetwork heavily involved in awareness raising activities around the female condom. read more »

In this paper, Bill Whittaker proposes that Australia implement a series of new policy and program actions, supported by bold time-bound targets for achieving them, to revitalize our response to HIV. These actions are based on important developments in HIV prevention and treatment which this paper highlights, as well on the measures endorsed by all countries under the 2011 United Nations Declaration on HIV/AIDS. read more »

NAPWHA is the national peak organisation representing people living with HIV/AIDS in Australia. Through leadership in advocacy, policy, education and prevention, NAPWHA strives to minimise the adverse personal and social effects of HIV/AIDS. read more »

From the Executive Director's report:

NAPWHA has again, this year, provided high-level health and policy advocacy on behalf of PLHIVPerson (or people) Living with HIV. This term is now preferred over the older PLWHA. across the country and this has been in direct response to the emerging issues raised by our member organisations and their constituents. This reporting period has also brought us to the midpoint for both the NAPWHA Strategic Plan, and the 6th National HIV Strategy. read more »