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The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has awarded $1.26 million to a project working to end AIDS in Papua New Guinea (PNG). The Kirby Institute’s Scientia Associate Professor Angela Kelly-Hanku, leader of the ...

The Walkabout Barber Bus is a built for purpose barber shop on wheels. Recently, it travelled to Kempsey, a regional town on the traditional lands of the Dunghutti people, 423km north of Sydney, to provide free haircuts to young ...

Australia has made great progress towards hepatitis C elimination, with an estimated 60 per cent of people living with hepatitis C having already been treated, but more work is needed if Australia is to eliminate hepatitis C as a ...

New research from the Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney, published today in PLOS Pathogens, combines a study in monkeys with mathematical modelling to reveal that the body’s immune defences can inhibit viral rebound from elements of the ...

Ahead of World AIDS Day, the Kirby Institute hosted a panel of representatives of national community organisations on 23 November at the Kirby Institute for a World AIDS Day forum which celebrated the reality that in Australia, ...

The Kirby Institute’s Dr Lucia Romani is among five scientists who have been named L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Fellows for 2023. The Fellowships recognise the achievements of exceptional women in the early-to-mid stages of ...

As he approaches retirement at the end of 2023, Head of the Kirby Institute’s Sexual Health Program, Professor Basil Donovan AO, has been named a UNSW Emeritus Professor.  The appointment was announced by Kirby Institute ...

Australia is stepping up its regional leadership in the elimination of cervical cancer, with the announcement today of a $12.5 million Australian Government grant to a consortium of leading Australian and international nongovernment ...

At the Kirby Institute we supported a Yes vote in the referendum for an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament. We are disappointed by the results of the referendum. Last week, we respected the Week of Silence ...

This article was first published on the UNSW Newsroom.  The Kirby Institute’s Dr Lise Lafferty has been honoured with a 2023 Paul Bourke Award. The internationally renowned expert is a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for ...

The Kirby Institute and the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) Singapore have signed a landmark Memorandum of Understanding that formalises the collaborative synergies and opportunities between the two organisations.

The Kirby Institute's Professor Gail Matthews is among 27 of Australia's top medical and health researchers elected as Fellows of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences (AAHMS), in recognition of their outstanding ...

The Kirby Institute mourns the loss of Atlantic Philanthropies Founder Charles F. Feeney, who donated $10M to support the Institute’s move from Darlinghurst to a new, purpose-built facility on UNSW's Kensington campus. American

Congratulations to Joanne Carson, who was awarded the Kirby Institute’s Postgraduate Student Prize for 2023. The Kirby Institute Postgraduate Student Prize is an annual award given to the most significant first author paper by a Kirby ...

Women in Vanuatu will have access to lifesaving cervical cancer screening, vaccination and treatment, thanks to a transformational program launched yesterday in Port Vila that is being rolled out across the archipelago nation. The

The Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney will receive $2.5 million over 5 years for the establishment of a new centre for Stronger Investments for Infectious Diseases (STRIDE), an innovative centre that will use innovative health economics ...

(CANBERRA, 11 September 2023) A new Hindi language application and dashboard designed for the Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney’s epidemic observatory EPIWATCH will facilitate expanded access to pandemic early warnings. The dashboard was ...

Strategies and Treatments for Respiratory Infections & Viral Emergencies, or STRIVE, was established in 2022 in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the goal of bringing together multiple clinical trials networks under a ...