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...
Australasian Society for HIV Viral Hepatitis and Sexual Health Medicine (ASHM), June 2023 ASHM has updated the National Guidelines for Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP) after non-occupational and occupational exposure to HIV . These guidelines outline the updated Australian recommendations for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) following potential or known exposure...
van Santen DK, Sacks-Davis R, Stewart A, Boyd A, Young J, van der Valk M, Smit C, Rauch A, Braun DL, Jarrin I, Berenguer J, Lazarus JV, Lacombe K, Requena MB, Wittkop L, Leleux O, Salmon D, Bonnet F, Matthews G, Doyle JS, Spelman T, Klein MB, Prins M, Asselin J, Stoové MA, Hellard M; InCHEHC study group. Treatment as prevention effect of direct-acting antivirals on primary hepatitis C virus...
Rebecca J Winter, Yumi Sheehan, Timothy Papaluca, Graeme A Macdonald, Joy Rowland, Anton Colman, Mark Stoove, Andrew R Lloyd and Alexander J Thompson Med J Aust 2023; 218 (5): 231-237. || doi: 10.5694/mja2.51854 Published online: 6 March 2023 Abstract Introduction: Prison settings represent the highest concentration of prevalent hepatitis C cases in Australia due to the high rates of...
Kirby Institute, UNSW, 17th April 2023 A ten-year study into the impact of HIV ‘treatment as prevention’ has found that a 27 per cent increase in people accessing effective HIV treatment saw HIV infections decrease by 66 per cent between 2010 to 2019, in NSW and Victoria. The findings, published today in Lancet HIV, show the success of HIV treatment as prevention in reducing new HIV infections...
Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society at La Trobe University, December 2022 A major national survey of Australians living with HIV has revealed more than 70 per cent of people living with HIV report their health-related quality of life to be good. This is very close to the target set in the current National HIV Strategy of 75 per cent of people living with HIV reporting good...