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On Monday 2nd March 2015, UNSW staff and students and members of the community came together at the main flagpole by the Chancellery to witness UNSW’s first rainbow flag-raising ceremony, in celebration of Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, ...

Results from the first Australian study to analyse HIV transmission risk among couples with differing HIV statuses suggest that HIV positive men who are on treatment and have an undetectable viral load are not transmitting the virus to ...

One of the Kirby Institute’s preeminent researchers, Professor Lisa Maher, has been appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for her significant service to medicine in the field of epidemiology, particularly through her ...

The scientific symposium Research in Action: From AIDS to Global Health to Impact was held on 14 October 2014 to recognise Joep Lange's legacy. The  symposium traced Joep Lange's career, starting in the early eighties with the ...

The Kirby Institute has launched a study examining the use of HIV treatment by HIV negative people to reduce their risk of acquiring the virus. The PrELUDE Study (NSW PrEP Demonstration Project) is the largest study of its kind to be ...

Research by Kirby Institute's Dr Simon Graham has led to sustained health improvements in four NSW Aboriginal communities through better testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections. Dr Graham, a Narrunga man from the York ...

The Kirby Institute at UNSW is recruiting gay and bisexual men living in Australia to participate in a study exploring what influences their attitudes and decisions about drug use, how these change over time, and the consequences of ...

Annual surveillance report shows hepatitis C deaths have more than doubled in a decade, syphilis hits all-time high   The estimated number of people dying from liver disease related to hepatitis C infection has more than ...

Today, UNSW Australia announced that it will lead a world-first study to evaluate highly curative new hepatitis C treatments as a means of preventing hepatitis C spread within prisons. The SToP-C study (Surveillance and Treatment of ...

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 ...