The incidence of hepatitis C among Sydney’s injecting drug users appears to have dropped over the past decade, according to research published in the Medical Journal of Australia. Data were analysed from 129 participants from three ...

The Kirby Institute has launched a new initiative to increase HIV testing and uptake of treatment in Indonesia, where government efforts to roll-out universal access to antiretroviral therapy have been hampered by low numbers of people ...

On Thursday 17 July 2014, a group of 350 academics, researchers, clinical professionals, policy makers and community partners working in the field of infectious diseases and blood-borne viruses came together at UNSW for the second ...

The Kirby Institute at UNSW today lost a close friend and longtime colleague Professor Joep Lange who, with his partner Jacqueline, were among the almost three hundred people on Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 shot down on the ...

International HIV/Viral Hepatitis Co-Infection Satellite Meeting Friday 18 - Saturday 19 July 2014 Intercontinental Melbourne the Rialto Melbourne, Australia Registration is open on the meeting website Theme: HIV / Viral ...

Annual Surveillance Report shows HIV is diagnosed late in Australia but treatment rates are high Too many people not diagnosed with HIV early enough, allowing their immune system to fail and potentially posing a risk to ...

JUNE Friday 6th June 2014 3:30pm - 5:00pm Wallace Wurth Maryam Alavi Barriers to the Assessment and Treatment of Hepatitis C Virus Infection in People Who Inject Drugs Chair: Jason Grebely   Friday 13th June ...

The Kirby Institute’s Professor Lisa Maher has been named one of Australia’s top health and medical researchers for 2013 by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC). Federal Minister for Health Peter Dutton announced ...

OPINION: The government’s proposal for a $7 co-payment for GP visits and laboratory tests is one of the most hotly debated items in last week’s budget. Putting aside the “broken promises” issue, most of the criticism of the co-payment ...

Associate Professor David Wilson, head of the Surveillance and Evaluation Program for Public Health at the Kirby Institute,UNSW, has been named one of Australia’s most influential young scientists by the Royal Society of New South Wales.

APRIL Friday 4th April 2014 3:30pm - 5:00pm Coogee Campus Kathy Petoumenos The Australian HIV Observational Database Temporary Residents Access study : 1 year of follow-up   Friday 11th April 2014 3:30pm - ...

The Kirby Institute’s Associate Professor Mark Boyd has been honoured with the 2014 Frank Fenner Award for Advanced Research in Infectious Diseases by the Australiasian Society of Infectious Diseases (ASID). The prestigious award ...

Volunteers are needed in Sydney for a study to inform cancer prevention programs The Kirby Institute is recruiting gay men living in Sydney to participate in a study of anal human papillomavirus (HPV) that will provide critical ...

Professor David Cooper, Director of the Kirby Institute at UNSW sits down with Cate Swannell from the Medical Journal of Australia to reflect on the history of the HIV/AIDS pandemic and look at current trends, including a worrisome ...

The Kirby Institute at UNSW Australia welcomes early results from the PARTNER study, which has found that HIV positive gay men who are on treatment and have undetectable viral load are not transmitting HIV to their partners.   Led ...

On 22 January, 2014, several of the Kirby Institute’s leading supporters gathered at Admiralty House in Sydney for a celebration of generosity hosted by Her Excellency the Honourable Quentin Bryce AC CVO, Governor-General of Australia.

OPINION: In a moving, intimate tribute to Lou Reed in the current issue of Rolling Stone, his partner Laurie Anderson writes with gratitude and love of their shared joys of artistic endeavour, their embrace of life and learning and of ...

The Kirby Institute’s Rebecca Guy has been named the top ranked applicant in population health by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC). Rebecca is a senior lecturer with the Sexual Health Program at the Kirby ...