There is a mixed bag of HIV prevention techniques being used across Canada, some clearly better than others. Bob Leahy with an opinionated look at what’s working and what’s not – and what to do about it.
Posted Thu, 19/01/2012 - 11:12am by admin.
24/1/12 - The Medicare Chronic Disease Dental Scheme, sometimes called the Medicare Dental Scheme, continues to operate. Whilst the Government has restated its intention to close the Scheme, it continues to operate for new and existing clients who are living with chronic conditions, such as HIV.
Posted Wed, 04/01/2012 - 4:02pm by admin.
A new national HIV education campaign for gay men developed by the AFAO-NAPWA Education team (ANET) encourages gay men to communicate more openly about HIV in sexual settings.
Posted Thu, 15/12/2011 - 2:30pm by admin.
A new scheme, called EMA, will extend the options for collecting HIV medications, writes Lance Feeney.
Posted Tue, 06/12/2011 - 4:50pm by admin.
The ASHM Testing Portal provides health professionals with a gateway for all policies, rexsources, publications, curriculums, training and education related to HIV, Hepatitis C and Hepatitis B testing.
Posted Mon, 07/11/2011 - 11:09am by admin.
21/07/2011 - Australian gay and bisexual men living with prostate cancer will soon benefit from the development of a pilot support program – funded by Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia (PCFA) – that will deliver improved support and educational resources to the gay community.
Posted Thu, 21/07/2011 - 5:42pm by admin.
Funding for the treatment of FL was announced in the May Federal Budget. Before the funding can be made available the Department of the Minister for health must make a ‘determination', or an official announcement that explains who is eligible, the allocation of Medicare Item Numbers that are used to set a fee and help people claim the fee back from Medicare.
Posted Thu, 16/06/2011 - 5:59pm by admin.
A team of French investigators has found that people who are taking an HIV treatment combination that includes Nevirapine are more likely to achieve a viral load of zero than people taking a combination that includes Efavirenz.
Posted Mon, 07/03/2011 - 4:19pm by admin.
04/03/2011 - Following a survey of the major parties in the lead up to this month's NSW election, advocates for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) community are calling on the next NSW government to continue supporting the GLBT community by building on a series of recent GLBT-related law reforms and healthcare initiatives.
Posted Fri, 04/03/2011 - 10:54am by admin.
02/03/2011 - Deputy Premier and Minister for Health Carmel Tebbutt today announced two new initiatives to support better health outcomes in the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender (GLBT) community.
Posted Wed, 02/03/2011 - 11:59am by admin.
15/02/2011 - People attending this weekend’s Fair Day are being encouraged to help ACON build the health and wellbeing of our community by taking part in an important bi-annual survey and by getting free STI tests.
Posted Tue, 15/02/2011 - 5:02pm by admin.
07/02/2011 - Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) people and people affected by HIV will soon be able to access key health and wellbeing services from the same place when staff from ACON’s four Sydney sites move to a single location in Surry Hills in May.
Posted Mon, 07/02/2011 - 2:09pm by admin.
24/11/10 - NSW's leading HIV prevention agency says that the results of the iPrEx study, published today in the New England Journal of Medicine, show that a lot more research will be required to establish whether or not taking HIV drugs as pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV prevention will have widespread applicability and benefit.
Posted Wed, 24/11/2010 - 10:10am by admin.
ACON has welcomed the release of the 2010 National HIV Surveillance and Behavioural Reports which confirm continuing stability in NSW HIV notifications rates.
Posted Tue, 19/10/2010 - 11:21am by admin.
Neil McKellar-Stewart, ACON's HIV Health Promotion Officer, attended the XVIII International AIDS 2010 Conference and made the following report from Vienna.
Posted Mon, 26/07/2010 - 11:55am by admin.
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