Australia has seen a notable rise in HIV infections over the last 12 months, say researchers at the University of New South Wales. The 2012 HIV, viral hepatitis and sexually transmissible infections in…
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An immunity booster to take on HIV and a lab-on-a-chip device to identify chemical warfare agents have featured in this year’s Eureka awards, which celebrate innovators in Australian science. This year’s…
The announcement yesterday by Chief Minister Katy Gallagher to establish a needle exchange in the ACT’s Alexander Maconochie Prison is historic. Politicians need votes like the rest of us need oxygen…
The HIV drug “abacavir” has been found to induce a dangerous allergic reaction in patients with the HLA-B*5701 gene. The…
It’s been known for some time that antiretroviral medicines could have a role in preventing HIV as well as treating it. Now, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the use of an antiretroviral…
Despite three decades of research, an HIV vaccine remains elusive. The main reason for this is the virus’s uncanny ability to evolve resistance to immune control, so understanding how the virus adapts…
Computer simulations have shown that early infection of the HIV virus still allows for rapid evolution, bypassing the immune…
HIV has claimed the lives of more than 30 million people since it emerged more than 30 years ago. But despite worldwide efforts to control the spread of the deadly disease, 2.6 million people contracted…
Australia’s rates of HIV infection have remained stable for the last five years but gonorrhoea cases shot up 25% last year, while chlamydia rates have reached epidemic levels among young people, a new…
Inserting monkey and jellyfish genes into cats has given scientists clues about how we could use genetics to fight HIV/AIDS…
A paper exploring HIV-positive women’s accounts of their use and non-use of treatments for the prevention of mother-to-child…
Twenty years after his discovery that peptic ulcers were caused by a bacteria called Helicobacter pylori, Nobel Prize winner Barry Marshall is using the same bacteria as the base of an edible vaccine that…
A team of scientists have found that HIV can hide out in the brain, protected from the immune system and antiviral drugs…
Cognitive problems that effect up to 60% of HIV-infected people may be caused by the virus infecting cells that protect the…
If you’ve ever had to wait two agonising weeks for a HIV test result, you’ll be pleased to hear that rapid HIV tests can now give an equally accurate result in just 30 minutes. The problem is, these tests…
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Director, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The University of Melbourne and Royal Melbourne Hospital and Consultant Physician, Department of Infectious Diseases, Alfred Hospital and Monash University, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
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Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University
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Research Professor, Perinatal HIV Research Unit and President, South African Medical Research Council
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Professor of medicine and deputy director of the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre at the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town
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Senior Research Fellow, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
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Ezintsha, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor, Monash University
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Honorary Research Associate, Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research, University of Cape Town
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Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Scientia Professor of Medicine and Director, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
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Dean Faculty of Health Sciences and Professor of Vaccinology at University of the Witwatersrand; and Director of the SAMRC Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand
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Assistant Professor of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University
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Associate Professor and Head of the Surveillance and Evaluation Program for Public Health at the Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
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Doctoral Researcher, School of Public Health and Public Health Technical Advisor, Anova Health Institute, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor and Director of the Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW Sydney
