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New HIV Treatment factsheet series

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NAPWHA, 20 Dec 2018 NAPWHA would like to thank ViiV Healthcare for an unrestricted grant to produce a new range of treatment messages. These are ideal for someone who has been newly diagnosed, or who is unsure if they are receiving the best possible treatment for them. Below are the first three of the series; these are downloadable in PDF format. Please continue to check in with NAPWHA in 2019...

Changing attitudes to and engagement with biomedical HIV prevention by gay and bisexual men

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Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW, 2017 The latest findings from the PrEPARE Project have now been published. The  PrEPARE Project is a longitudinal study of Australian gay and bisexual men’s attitudes to biomedical HIV prevention, particularly PrEP and treatment as prevention (TasP). With the unprecedented scaling up of PrEP access in many states over the last few years, we have...

Making sexual consent matter: one-off courses are unlikely to help

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The Conversation, February 15, 2018 6.05am AEDT In the wake of the findings of the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) 2017 national report on sexual assault and sexual harassment at Australian universities, a number of universities have introduced mandatory courses on sexual consent for new students. Of all students who participated in the AHRC inquiry, 26% experienced some form of sexual...

Vaccine for Meningitis Shows Some Protection Against Gonorrhea

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New Zealand Family Planning Some strains of the bacterium that cause gonorrhoea are now resistant to all available antibiotics. With no new drugs on the near horizon, the disease is in desperate need of a vaccine. Our research, published in the Lancet medical journal this week, shows that protection against gonorrhoea could come from an unexpected source – a vaccine against meningococcal...

Birth control: Natural methods of contraception on the rise in Australia

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ABC, 22nd July 2017 Despite the messaging around safe sex and unwanted pregnancies that dominates our discussion of sexual health, a growing number of Australians are opting to risk it. A recent study out of Monash University suggests the use of so-called natural contraception methods, like withdrawal and fertility awareness, are making a comeback. Sara Holton, a research fellow at Monash and co...

Behaviour change interventions in HIV prevention: is there still a place for them?

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nam/aidsmap, 12 April 2017 A meta-analysis of studies of brief interventions to reduce HIV risk behaviour in HIV-negative gay men has concluded that there is evidence that such techniques did have a significant impact on the behaviours they were designed to change. It also found evidence that the best way to conduct such interventions was face-to-face, i.e. not via the internet, telephone or...

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