Treatment as Prevention¨

Reflecting on a career spanning more than 40 years in nursing and midwifery, Burnet Institute Research Nurse, Kate Allardice smiles. “I am forever thankful that’s what I chose to do with my life,” she says. It’s a hugely varied professional journey that spans the Melbourne Sexual Health Centre in the days when female nurses (but […]

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has produced the fear and disorder inevitably provoked by emerging pathogens. As such, it should also inspire consideration of our experience with HIV over the past 40 years. As with HIV, the road to reducing infections with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2, the cause of COVID-19), and

Overstretched health systems, lockdowns, loss of livelihoods and fewer employment opportunities could increase unprotected sex, sexual violence and exploitation, transactional sex and sex work, leading to an increase in new HIV infections GENEVA, 6 May 2020-Despite the global progress made in HIV prevention, with new HIV infections falling by 40% since the peak in 1997,

This year, the annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) was held in a virtual format due to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak. In his virtual presentation, Denton Callander, PhD, of the University of New South Wales in Sydney, explained how community-level HIV viremia was associated with decreasing HIV incidence in a real-world example of

World AIDS Day arrives each December 1 with a sense of sadness, but there was cause to celebrate in British Columbia last December. That was when provincial Health Minister Adrian Dix officially declared that A IDS was no longer an epidemic in British Columbia, but an endemic concern. Accompanying Dix that day at the opening

One of the most important HIV conferences of the year, the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2020) took place in the second week of March, just as many people’s attention was engulfed by the new coronavirus. You might have missed some of the key developments in HIV prevention presented at the meeting: The

SEATTLE, Washington – Though there have been multiple biomedical advances to prevent and treat HIV and AIDS in the last decade, these innovations have not been accessible to everyone. Barriers remain in the form of stigma, lack of supportive policy, a dearth of robust health systems and even more challenges unique to each country. Here