(SYDNEY Australia, Friday 5 October 2018) In the last 10 years, there has been a 90% reduction in genital warts in young Australians aged between 15–20 years, according to new Kirby Institute data presented today at the 32nd ...

Australian researchers have partnered with researchers in the Solomon Islands to advance the fight against neglected tropical diseases in the Pacific by proving that it is possible to safely treat large populations for trachoma and ...

What started ten years ago as a health surveillance system to monitor chlamydia is being celebrated today as one of the pillars of Australia’s strategic response to sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and blood borne viruses (BBVs).

There were 963 new HIV diagnoses in Australia in 2017, representing a 7% decline over five years, and the lowest number of new diagnoses in seven years. The reductions were greatest among gay and bisexual men, with a 15% reduction in ...

(CASCAIS, PORTUGAL, Thursday 20 September 2018) Researchers are calling on an end to discriminatory health and illicit drugs policies, based on overwhelming evidence that new hepatitis C therapies are effective at curing the virus in ...

Researchers from the Kirby Institute joined colleagues and friends in Goroka for the 50th Anniversary Colloquium of the Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research (PNGIMR), held 28–31 August 2018.  The PNGIMR was established ...

(SYDNEY, Tuesday 21 August 2018) Preparedness could be the difference between a contained local outbreak and a global pandemic if there was a smallpox attack in the Pacific today, a bioterrorism exercise held at UNSW Sydney discovered.

The Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has today announced $5 million in grant funding across two major Kirby Institute-led projects in the Asia-Pacific region. The grants, led by Professors Rebecca Guy and ...

(ADELAIDE, Monday 13 August 2018) There has been a 20% decline in deaths from hepatitis C, new Kirby Institute data presented today at the Australasian Viral Hepatitis Conference in Adelaide shows. The decline, based on New South ...

The late Professor David Cooper AC, founder and director of the Kirby Institute, was honoured at a special International AIDS Society (IAS) Members meeting and reception at the International AIDS Conference 2018 in Amsterdam overnight.&n

Andrew Wong from the Kirby Institute’s Immunovirology and Pathogenesis Research Program presented his abstract, titled Modular Gene Therapy Vectors for Gene Therapy Cure in Resting Immune Cells, at the AIDS 2018 Conference in ...

(Sydney, Friday 27 July 2018) There has been a decline in the uptake of life-saving treatments among people living with hepatitis C, according to new data released today by the Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney.  The data, ...

(Sydney, Tuesday 24 July 2018) Globally, more than one in three (39%) people who have injected drugs in the last year are living with hepatitis C infection, according to new research from the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre ...

Results from a large study of HIV transmission risk among homosexual male couples with differing HIV status were today published in The Lancet HIV. The study, led by the Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney, is called Opposites Attract, and ...

On Tuesday 10 July, UNSW Medicine and the Kirby Institute and held a special NAIDOC seminar to celebrate Indigenous women in health and justice research. The event, inspired by the theme “Because of her, we can!”, brought together ...

We are delighted to announce that the Biosecurity Program, headed by Professor Raina MacIntyre, joined the Kirby Institute last month. Professor MacIntyre and her team join us from the UNSW School of Public Health and Community Medicine.

(MELBOURNE, Monday 2 July 2018) Researchers at the Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and university partners in Indonesia have been awarded almost $2 million by the Australian ...

First visit by Unitaid Executive Team to UNSW Sydney On Friday 29 June 2018, the Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney was pleased to host Mr Lelio Marmora, Executive Director, Mr Robert Matiru, Director of Operations, and other members of ...