NSW STI PROGRAM UNIT, February 2016 The NSW STI Strategy was officially released on February 5th. It is aligned with the HIV Strategy and focuses on priority populations and priority settings. Prevent, test and treat areas of action are identified and includes lead and partner organisations where through collaboration and partnership success can be achieved . The Strategy focuses on gonorrhoea...
Huffpost Queer Voices Blog, 02/09/2016 Today, most research investigating IPV and other forms of sexual and partner violence focuses on heterosexual women as victims and heterosexual men as perpetrators, a notion that is justifiable in the realms of empirical evidence. However, when focusing on development, implementation and evaluation of effective intervention strategies to address IPV, current...
The Guardian, 5 February 2015
The huge global scale of female genital mutilation has been revealed in disturbing new statistics, which show at least 200 million girls and women alive today have undergone ritual cutting, half of them living in just three countries.
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SIN, 9 February 2016 SIN are looking for past or present sex workers to be involved in community input into the organisation: SIN is a proud, peer run, and peer focused community organisation. But we need you! If you identify as a past or present sex worker, we would love to have you join us at our monthly ‘Ho Down’. ‘Ho Down’ was previously known as PC (program committee) but a new direction has...
AFAO, 08 February, 2016 ‘Get PEP’ is a new nation-wide campaign, produced by the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations (AFAO), that aims to increase gay men’s knowledge and awareness of PEP (Post-Exposure Prophylaxis). ‘Get PEP’ is based around the website www.getpep.info. It provides a range of information about PEP, including what it is and how it works, as...
POZ Treatment News, January 29, 2016
Individuals who start HIV treatment very soon after contracting the virus may be at lesser risk of later developing cognitive decline than other HIV-positive individuals.
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