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Luca is a teacher in a skills crisis, but his HIV means he’s not allowed to stay
The Italian national has the skills the country needs, but he says he has been barred from permanent residency by a discriminatory policy.
- by Angus Thompson
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Revealed: The new front in Sydney’s 40-year HIV battle
Australia’s oldest AIDS charity is taking the battle against HIV, homophobia and discrimination to western Sydney as the virus affects a new generation.
- by Andrew Hornery
Is this Australia’s most popular and heartbreaking love story?
Tender, funny and incredibly sad, Holding the Man was a hit from the moment it premiered in 2006. It now returns with a new cast in a new era.
- by Louise Rugendyke
‘The disease that I’ve been worried about my whole life ended up saving my life’
Ryan was headed for palliative care before an Australian-first surgery gave him a second chance.
- by Megan Gorrey
Grindr ready to promote HIV self tests in plan to eradicate the virus
A federal government report encouraging the widespread use of HIV self tests has been hailed as an opportunity to eradicate the virus by 2030.
- by Kieran Rooney
‘I was told not to plan for old age’: The long-term survivors who beat the HIV odds
They were expected to die, yet 40 years after HIV/AIDS rocked the world, many are holding strong – baffling medicos in the process.
- by Greg Callaghan
‘Give her my number’: Forty years after sexual abuse, a chance for justice
His paedophile teacher had left a decades-long trail of misery. Then came the opportunity to put him in jail.
- by David Meagher
How close is Sydney to ending HIV? It depends on where you live
Sydney’s inner city is close to becoming the first place in the world to virtually eliminate HIV transmission, but it is a different story in the outer suburbs.
- by Angus Thomson
Sexual health services prepare for influx of tourists at WorldPride
Men who have sex with men have been urged to receive mpox vaccines and, if they are on a PrEP, fill their scripts ahead of next month’s festival.
- by Mary Ward
This Nobel Prize winner fought the HIV epidemic. Here’s what she thinks about COVID-19
Barré-Sinoussi said the scientific strategy for the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the COVID-19 pandemic was very similar, but she was disappointed that more hadn’t been learnt from the HIV response.
- by Aisha Dow
‘Big task’: Late testers a target in bid to beat HIV
Australia recorded its lowest number of new HIV cases last year, but experts warn testing must be normalised among all sexually active people to eliminate the virus.
- by Mary Ward
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