While drugs have been developed to treat HIV and AIDS, the virus can still lie dormant in the brain, increasing the risk for brain disease such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases.
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Cases like Daryll Rowe’s are very rare, but they have the power to transform both the law and public opinion.
Given the progress gay rights have made over the last 40 years, we might believe we live in queer friendly North America and that homophobia is dead. But it’s not. It is just in disguise.
Sharing data about users’ HIV statuses is bad enough. But why collect it in the first place?
The HIV prevention drug Truvada (PrEP) will be listed on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme from this Sunday, moving Australia closer to achieving its goal of ending new HIV transmissions by 2020.
Victoria should implement a new report’s recommendation to allow peers to distribute clean injecting equipment, but it needs to go further to ensure safe drug use in prison.
Using ‘humanized mice,’ researchers found more evidence that a widely used contraceptive may make women more susceptible to HIV infection.
Women with AIDS were excluded from the US definition of the syndrome until 1993. What’s changed?
On International Women’s Day, everyone can pledge to be an ally to women living with HIV and support their access to sexual health and sexual pleasure.
The placenta could hold the answers to why HIV positive women report higher rates of premature deliveries.
Zimbabwe’s new president, Emmerson Mnagagwga has offered a glimmer of hope to LGBT people in the country.
Quit smoking, quit drinking – so many good resolutions for the New Year. But can the overabundance of messages on healthy living become counter-productive?
PrEP may be giving some homosexual and heterosexual users a false sense of security.
World AIDS Day is an opportunity to discuss how current medical inadmissibility rules for newcomers are out of touch with Canadian values and need to be reformed.
HIV has no boundaries. Men and women in almost every country are affected. Yet strides have been made, so much so that many are able to think of living with AIDS rather than dying from it.
To get an effective vaccine for HIV/AIDS, scientists need to understand exactly how the virus works and immune system responds to it. African scientists have come one step closer.
Rowe’s was a particularly harrowing case. But it raises important questions about broader attitudes to the virus.
Maybe it’s time the government listened to the advice offered by its Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs.
Do boys and girls from diverse cultural settings experience their transitions into adolescence? Their cultural differences don’t make a difference, but their genders do.
NSW has changed its laws imposing criminal penalties on someone with an STI who doesn’t take “reasonable precautions” to not infect their sexual partner.
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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
