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AIDS and HIV are still major health threats, fueled by poverty and discrimination as much as by the virus responsible for the infection.
When it comes to sexual health, public information has tended to focus on the young. Time for a change.
The stories of HIV positive women in Tanzania often go unheard outside the communities in which they live.
Ignoring those at ‘high risk’ of HIV in order to sustain the idea of the ‘good’ gay man will only perpetuate the virus.
The annual surveillance report of sexually transmissible infections and blood borne viruses in Australia has found notifications of sexually transmissible infections are on the rise in Australia.
HIV diagnosis is devastating for patients and their families. But the infection is no longer a death sentence, and should not be prosecuted as such say experts.
When people migrate they can end up worse off when it comes to getting access to health care. Analysing migration trends can help drive local public health policy towards the correct targets.
Two musicals set in working class mining communities – one in the UK and the other in South Africa – have diametrically opposed messages: one of hope; the other, despair.
Studies have suggested that women using a particular kind of injectable contraceptive are more susceptible to HIV infection. Research in mice offers new insights.
Efficacy is estimated to be as high as 99% in men who have sex with men who take Truvada daily.
Many women across the world feel unable to refuse sex or request condom use. Empowering them could help bring down HIV rates.
Curing HIV – or at least achieving long-term remission – is possible, under the right circumstances.
Three new studies conducted in South Africa provide insights into the engine that drives HIV transmission in the country.
Worldwide, around 30 million people enter and leave prison each year. Of these people, around 4.5 million have hepatitis C, almost 1 million have HIV and 1.5 million have hepatitis B infections.
Activists, health-care workers and scientists in South Africa were faced with a horrific epidemic but went on a ruthless crusade to turn it around.
The 90-90-90 strategy is an attempt to get the HIV epidemic under control by adopting a ‘test and treat’ approach. This is part of the plan to eliminate AIDS by 2030.
There are good reasons for drawing attention to “the end of AIDS” in Australia. But this needs to be read with caution.
Many men are still acquiring HIV during gay sex but it’s a complex issue not easily explained by niche activities such as chemsex parties.
In the the wake of the Orlando massacre, many people directly affected by this homophobic hate crime are prevented from offering help due to homophobic regulations.
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Top contributors
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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
