By Alex Wodak, St Vincent's Hospital, Darlinghurst
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…
Sex workers in developing countries are particularly vulnerable to medical abuses.
Cheryl Overs
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…
Scanning electron micrograph of HIV-1 budding (in green) from cultured lymphocyte.
CDC/ C. Goldsmith, P. Feorino, E. L. Palmer, W. R. McManus
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…
Police contact with drug users and sex workers means they can help achieve public health goals.
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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…
With a bacterial base, liquid vaccines could be produced quickly and at low cost.
Flickr/hdptcar
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…
Rapid HIV tests should be offered in beats and sex on-site venues.
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…
