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Movember Institute of Men’s Health, April 2025 Social media plays a huge part in young men’s lives. Once fringe subcultures, influencers who create ‘men and masculinity content’ now amass millions of young male followers worldwide. Despite high levels of public interest, there has been a lack of attention given to the voices and experiences of young men engaging with this content and how it is...
UK Health Security Agency, 30 October 2024 The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has detected a single confirmed human case of Clade Ib mpox. The risk to the UK population remains low. This is the first detection of this Clade of mpox in the UK. It is different from mpox Clade II that has been circulating at low levels in the UK since 2022, primarily among gay, bisexual and other men-who-have-sex...
Improving our understanding of HIV notifications among people from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse backgrounds in Australia By Ela Naruka, Research Officer, Kirby Institute, October 23, 2024 Over the past decade (2014-2023), there has been a 21.5% increase in HIV notifications among people from CALD backgrounds. In 2014, there were 306 notifications (28% of total notifications), which rose...
RainbowTerminology.org, Published October 2024 This project and website are dedicated to finding the words individuals use to describe themselves when they identify as being Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, Queer, Questioning, Asexual and/or Gender Diverse. What is novel about the project is that there are very few bilingual resources available to help articulate sexual orientation...
SHINE SA Media Release: Support for Calls for Inclusion of Gender, Variations of Sex Characteristics, and Sexual Orientation in the 2026 Census Posted on September 4, 2024 “All of us count, and all of us should be counted” SHINE SA supports the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) proposal to include three essential topics—gender, innate variations of sex characteristics, and sexual...
Kirby Institute, UNSW |Media release | Published on 04 Sep 2024 Over the last decade, HIV diagnoses in Australia have continued to follow a downward trend, according to new data released today by the Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney. While there were 722 new HIV diagnoses reported nationally in 2023 – up from 553 in 2022 – the researchers still reported a lower number of annual cases compared to...