Inside HIV

The centrepiece of Living Positive Victoria’s 2018 World AIDS Day presentation was a community forum on the topic Living and Ageing with HIV, moderated by Dr Chris Lemoh, President of the Victorian African Health Action Network.The panel comprised, Dr Clovis Palmer, Head, Palmer Laboratory Burnet Institute; Dr Liz Crock, Bolton Clarke Clinical Nurse Consultant/Team Coordinator; David Menadue OAM, HIV activist and Bev Greet, HIV activist.

Recorded live at the launch of World AIDS Day 2018 at the AMREP Theatre in Melbourne Australia. Featuring a welcome speech from Adam Ehm President of Living Positive Victoria, who highlights this year’s theme “Everybody Counts.” Speakers include: Peter Breadon Executive Director, Community Participation, Health and Wellbeing Division, a keynote address by Professor Mark Stoove from the Burnet Institute and Dr Susan Paxton and Mr Julien Fournier from the Positive Speakers Bureau of Living Positive Victoria

Currently there is a lot of chatter about HIV Cure.  What role do HIV positive people play in the research for a cure?  Are there different types of Cures? Why would I want to participate in cure research? Realistically, how far away is a cure for HIV?These questions and so much more were discussed during the 2017 ASHM Conference in Canberra.In this podcast, recorded live on 7 November 2017, Professor Sharon Lewin from the Doherty Institute in Melbourne, discusses some of the challenges that researchers face in their search for an HIV cure.  Also on the discussion panel are, Cipri Martinez, President of NAPWHA, Dr Rowena Johnston, Vice President of amfAR and Dr Robert Page, a S100 GP from Sydney.  Moderating this discussion is Heath Paynter from the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations.To find out more about HIV Cure research head to http://hivcure.com.au/

In the largest study of its kind, UNSW’s Kirby Institute conducted research with gay men in a sero-different relationship (where one partner is HIV positive and the other negative) from 2012-2016.The findings of the Opposites Attract Study reveal, nearly 17,000 acts of anal sex without a condom took place.  Not one case of HIV transference took place.We cross to the conference in Paris to speak with Professor Andrew Grulich from the Kirby Institute for this breaking news.One of the study participants, Andrew Thorpe, shares how important this research was for him as the negative partner in a sero-different relationship.Then we head back to Paris as the Executive Officer of Living Positive Victoria, Brent Allen, brings us up-to-date with the latest from the conference.

AS REVEALED FIRST ON JOY 94.9Confirmation that a participant in Melbourne's PrEPX Trial has become HIV positive.Dean Beck and Shannon Power are first with the story as revealed on The Informer JOY 94.9