Australian Institute of Family Studies, December 2016 Family violence is a serious and widespread issue in Australia, and is a key priority area for government. This resource sheet investigates the effectiveness of current mainstream, international, and Indigenous prevention programs and identifies the principles behind successful programs. Background information is also provided on the extent...
PBS Newshour, December 15, 2016 at 11:00 AM EST A new small-scale human trial of the promising “shock and kill” treatment is starting this week in New York and two sister sites, in Germany and Denmark. Another small human study will start in January, followed by a larger human shock and kill trial in June. The HIV research community is increasingly optimistic about this approach to eradicating...
TIME, Dec. 14, 2016 The largest and most comprehensive study on the matter reports that women are much more emotionally stressed if they are denied an abortion initially than if they received one upon request. “There are policies and decisions being made with this assumption that abortion harms women’s mental health,” says study author M. Antonia Biggs. Read more here Access journal paper (full...
Medical News Today, Thursday 8 December 2016 Cities with substantial uncircumcised populations in 1950 tended to have higher HIV-2 prevalence from 1985. In West African cities, male circumcision rates in 1950 were negatively correlated with HIV-2 prevalence from 1985, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by João Sousa from the University of Leuven, Belgium, and...
The Guardian, Wednesday 14 December 2016 06.27 AEDT The speed with which modern societies are adapting to the upending of conventional ideas about gender and sexual identity “may be the most important cultural metamorphosis of our time”, wrote Jenna Wortham in the New York Times Magazine a few months ago. Heteronormativity, cisgender, gender binary, queer theory and gender fluidity are now...
SHine SA, 14/12/2016 SHine SA services will be operating as follows over the Christmas/New Year period: For our Davoren Park, Noarlunga, and Hyde Street sites, plus Woodville site upstairs only (program staff and Office of the CEO), the last day of operation is Friday 23rdDecember 2016. These sites will re-open on Tuesday 3rd January 2017. Our Woodville clinic is closed on weekends and...