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Italian-born teacher Luca has been denied a permanent residency visa because he has been diagnosed with HIV.

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.

  • Angus Thompson

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Multicultural communities are being targeted in western Sydney.

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.

  • Andrew Hornery
Tom Conroy and Danny Ball. Tom and Danny star in Holding the Man, one of Australia’s great love stories.

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.

  • Louise Rugendyke
Ryan was given another chance when a HIV-positive kidney donor was available.

‘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.

  • Megan Gorrey
Atomo HIV test lets Australians test themselves at home with a finger prick.

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.

  • Kieran Rooney
In 1984, David Menadue was one of the first people in Australia to be diagnosed HIV-positive. “I was told not to plan for old age,” he says.

‘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.

  • Greg Callaghan
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David Meagher: “Bringing the person who abused me as a child to justice gave me confidence – in the police, in the law, in myself.”

‘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.

  • David Meagher
HIV transmission story by suburb (map)

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.

  • Angus Thomson
The Mardi Gras parade will return to Oxford Street in 2023 as part of the Sydney WorldPride festival.

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.

  • Mary Ward
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi at the Doherty Institute in Melbourne this week.

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.

  • Aisha Dow

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