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When it comes to sexual health, public information has tended to focus on the young. Time for a change.
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.
Efficacy is estimated to be as high as 99% in men who have sex with men who take Truvada daily.
Curing HIV – or at least achieving long-term remission – is possible, under the right circumstances.
There are good reasons for drawing attention to “the end of AIDS” in Australia. But this needs to be read with caution.
A new animal study has shown injections of antibodies might protect against HIV infection, albeit for only a limited time.
After 35 years, AIDS has changed the way the globe thinks about health, culture, and politics.
Despite the breakthroughs in HIV and AIDS research, without an effective vaccine, the world will not get to zero new infections and deaths.
Used properly and consistently, condoms are the most effective, affordable, and low-tech way to prevent HIV. But unfortunately, condoms are not an easy option for everyone – particularly women.
HIV is still a major public health issue among the most at-risk groups, and efforts to tackle it need to get smarter.
Health has secured its place as one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. But without clear mechanisms to report, finance or engage other sectors, could more end up as less?
Despite health promotion campaigns and a concerted effort to make antiretroviral therapy more accessible, the number of new HIV cases in Australia has remained stable over the last three years.
June 5 2015 marks 34 years since the first reports of AIDS in a medical journal.
HIV has infected over seventy million people but only one of them has been cured: Timothy Ray Brown. An HIV-positive resident of Berlin, Germany, Brown developed relapsed leukemia in 2006. To treat the…
Two years ago, the “beginning of the end” of AIDS was announced. It included the promise of reducing HIV transmission by reducing the amount of infectious virus in the population. This relies on a two-pronged…
When AIDS first emerged in the early 1980s, HIV infection was a death sentence. But a global effort has ensured this is no longer the case for a growing number of people. The good news today is that the…
This article was updated at 12.30pm on Saturday July 19. The international AIDS community is mourning the deaths of researchers, community activists, health workers and people with HIV whose plane was…
The field of HIV treatment and prevention has been freshly energised by the findings from several recent clinical trials. Maintaining the momentum of scientific discoveries and breakthroughs is critical…
In the three decades since the virus was identified, Australia has done well by international standards in keeping HIV infection rates down. But certain aspects of our national approach continue to risk…
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Professor of Global Health and Director, O'Neill Institute, Georgetown University
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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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Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Perspectives in HIV and Sexual and Reproductive Health, Simon Fraser University
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Adjunct Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Columbia University
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James R. Johnston Chair, Black Canadian Studies, Dalhousie University
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Adjunct professor, Kirby Institute for Infection and Immunity, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor, Monash University
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Scientia Professor of Medicine and Director, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Research Fellow, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Gender Studies, Chair in Sex Media and Sex Cultures, Linköping University
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Assistant Professor of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University
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Professor, School of English and Theatre Studies, University of Guelph
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Professor of Health Studies, University of Westminster
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Research Professor, Perinatal HIV Research Unit and President, South African Medical Research Council
