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The Kirby Institute's Professor Rebecca Guy is among 29 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 ...

A new national report released today highlights a decline in hepatitis C testing and treatment uptake, putting Australia at risk of not achieving its target of eliminating hepatitis C as a public health threat by 2030. The report ...

This major investment will increase access to hepatitis C testing, treatment and cures - through scale up of new ‘point-of-care' testing across the country.  (SYDNEY, Monday 20 September 2021) The Australian Government Department of ...

The Kirby Institute has been awarded $13 million in funding from the Australian Government’s National Health and Medical Research Council, announced today by Health Minister, The Hon Greg Hunt. This includes three grants for ...

A new PhD scholarship to train the next generation of infectious disease researchers has been announced in acknowledgement of the Kirby Institute’s inaugural Director, the late Professor David Cooper. The Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney ...

Self-testing kits increase access to HIV testing, especially among hard-to-reach, high-risk population groups, a new study by the Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney shows.  Gay and bisexual men are at increased risk of HIV, and frequent ...

A cross-faculty team at UNSW, led by the Kirby Institute’s Professor Raina MacIntyre, has been named a finalist in the Australian Museum’s Eureka Prize, an annual presentation of 17 prizes awarded across four categories including ...

The National Institutes of Health have awarded US$269,612 (approx. AU$371,361) to a Kirby Institute-led study that is set to inform the development of treatments for pre-cancerous anal lesions.  Anal cancer is a rare but aggressive ...

The Kirby Institute joins colleagues and friends in Papua New Guinea in mourning the sudden loss of Professor Evelyn Lavu, the country’s most senior pathologist and an internationally recognised leader in the fight against HIV, malaria ...

New research shows that two-thirds of visits to private drug retail outlets resulted in the dispensing of antibiotics without a prescription The problem of antimicrobial resistance – or AMR – is amplified by the incorrect or ...

(SYDNEY, Monday 2 August 2021) At least 15% of people in bushfire affected areas of Australia reported experiencing adverse health effects during the severe summer bushfires of 2019–2020, according to a survey of over 1,000 people, ...

A consortium of Australia’s leading infectious disease research centres – the Kirby, Doherty, and Burnet Institutes – together with international collaborators, the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) and FIND, the global alliance ...

It is with sadness that the Kirby Institute joins our colleagues in Myanmar and Australia in grieving the loss of Professor Mar Mar Kyi, a leader in infectious disease research and clinical care in Myanmar, and one of the founders of ...

Australian scientists researching how our immune system responds to COVID-19 have revealed that those infected by early variants in 2020 produced sustained antibodies, however, these antibodies are not as effective against contemporary ...

(SYDNEY, FRIDAY 2 JULY 2021) New research from the Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney shows that HIV transmissions are at historically low rates among almost 10,000 high-risk gay and bisexual men on pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), the HIV ...

It is with great sadness that the Kirby Institute joins our colleagues at CSL and beyond in mourning the loss of Dr Geoffrey Symonds, a leader in gene therapy development, who passed away overnight after a short illness. Dr Symonds was ...

Researchers from the Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney have been awarded $1.59 million from the federal government for new research advancing the elimination of cervical cancer in rural Papua New Guinea. Written by Yolande Hutchison for ...

A portrait of leading epidemiologist and biosecurity expert, Professor Raina MacIntyre, by Sydney artist Karen Black was a finalist in this year’s Archibald Prize. The artwork pays tribute to Professor MacIntyre’s impact and influence ...