Archive For: ATSIHIV News
April 15, 2019 THE number of cases of HIV in the NT has nearly doubled in the last financial year — increasing from nine cases in the third quarter of 2017 to 16 in the third quarter of 2018, shows recently released data. The NT Disease Control Bulletin shows the ... Read More
Every day we’re bombarded with stories telling us how to live our healthiest lives. We’re told we should sleep seven to nine hours each night, eat plenty of fruit and vegetables, exercise regularly, drink lots of water and avoid alcohol. It’s a lot to take in. And even though it might be based on the ... Read More
April 3, 2019 The National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO) is disappointed at the lack of funding allocated in the 2019-2020 federal budget for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health services and the Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Sector. NACCHO welcomes the $15 million allocated for Indigenous suicide prevention and the $20 million for Indigenous ... Read More
How much do you trust the people you’re with to tell you the truth about their sexual health?Jenny Brockie speaks to people with HIV, and they discuss what it’s like to date and love in 2019. https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/1461128260002
1st April 2019 SBS Insight EXPERT COMMENT: Doctors in far North QLD are fighting the greatest Australian HIV epidemic since the AIDS crisis, and until now they’ve been largely doing it alone. The first recorded case of HIV in Australia was in Sydney in October 1982, and the first Australian death from ... Read More
March 25, 2019 About 19,000 Australians have taken advantage of anti-HIV drugs in the first two years of groundbreaking PrEP regimen being subsidised via the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme. Researchers point to the increasing number of HIV-positive Australians starting early antiretroviral treatment to prevent its development and spread. The latest surveillance ... Read More
1st April 2019 The gap between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians in sexual health is widening, according to a new study. People failing to use condoms has led to a surge in indigenous HIV, a study has found. The finding comes as a significant increase in regional and remote HIV diagnoses ... Read More
By Ian Bushnell 29 March 2019 The ACT Government has formally joined a national Closing the Gap partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peak bodies that gives Indigenous people a say in the development of new policies to change their poor life outcomes. Chief Minister Andrew Barr was the first State or Territory leader to sign ... Read More
19 March 2019 ABC Podcast featuring Associated Professor James Ward ABC Podcast – STI’s in remote Australia
10 March 2019 By Brett Lackey Data shows Northern Territory has much higher STI rate than rest of the country Territory Health minister has written to federal government about the problem Federal government said it has already pledge nearly $40 million to the issue The rate of sexually transmitted infections is staggeringly higher in the ... Read More
