June 12, 2019 Despite an overall drop in HIV diagnoses, straight Australians are bringing the disease back to Australia from overseas holidays, and Indigenous communities are also especially at risk. According to a 2018 report by the Kirby institute, despite an overall drop in HIV diagnoses to a seven-year low, there was a 10 per ... Read More
JUNE 9 2019 There is good and bad news when it comes to our sexual health. There has been a significant reduction in HIV on the Mid-North-Coast but a small increase in other sexually transmitted infections such as chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis. HIV notifications are down 22 per cent across NSW. HIV Testing Week runs ... Read More
More than 1 million people every day worldwide catch a sexually transmitted infection, with rates of chlamydia, gonorrhoea, trichomoniasis and syphilis the most worrying, the World Health Organisation said. “Sexually transmitted infections are everywhere. They are far more common than we think,” Teodora Wi, a medical officer in the WHO’s department for reproductive health and ... Read More
One of the biggest fears of people living with HIV is having to disclose their status to their employer, risking possible discrimination. The good news is that in most professions, you are not legally required to tell an employer, or prospective employer, that you are HIV positive with only a few exceptions, the main one ... Read More
May 16, 2019 Last year Aotearoa New Zealand became one of the first countries in the world to publicly fund the HIV prevention drug called pre-exposure prophylaxis or “PrEP”. We desperately needed that decision – it followed our worst ever year of the HIV epidemic, with 244 new diagnoses. PrEP virtually eliminates the risk of ... Read More
May 9th 2019 Campaigns pushing for Australians to stop taking antibiotics unnecessarily are beginning to cut through, as new data reveals the nation’s antibiotic use has fallen for the first time in two decades. The same research found antibiotics are still being over prescribed and misused, causing several dangerous bacteria to grow increasingly resistant to ... Read More
Community Group POWA (Positive Organisation Western Australia) are inviting everyone to attend the International AIDS Candlelight memorial on Sunday 19th May. The Perth edition of the global event will be held at 5:30pm on Sunday the 19th of May at the AIDS Memorial in Robertson Park, on the corner of Fitzgerald and Stuart Streets. Hot ... Read More
May 7, 2019 Bradley van Paridon An increased incidence of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) was associated with the receipt of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in gay and bisexual men, according to data published in JAMA. To describe the STI incidence and behavioral risk factors in a cohort of gay and bisexual men using PrEP and ... Read More
April 20, 2019 The number of new HIV cases in NSW has dropped to their lowest level since 1984, but NSW Health would not say whether it will hit its target of “virtually” eliminating the disease by 2020. In 2018, 278 people had a newly diagnosed HIV infection, which was 17 per cent lower than ... Read More
April 17, 2019 Bill Shorten is set to unveil a $115 million plan to tackle the Indigenous health crisis, as he seeks to position Labor as the only party capable of closing the ten-year gap in life expectancy between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians and their non-Indigenous peers. The package includes $29.6 million to ... Read More
