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 The 23rd Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for HIV Medicine will be held in Canberra during the last week of September, the first time the conference has been held here since 2004. Australasia's premier HIV-related conference brings together a range of disciplines involved in HIV prevention and management, providing an opportunity to share the latest information about HIV in Australia today.
Delegates will hear a number of presentations from the HIV Seroconversion Study; one describing barriers and incentives for HIV testing, another examining how people recently diagnosed with HIV feel about treatments.
The Seroconversion Study is an ongoing national study, from the University of NSW and La Trobe University, which has been interviewing people recently diagnosed with HIV for the last four years. The information collected has provided invaluable insights into how HIV transmission occurs, and what it’s like to receive an HIV diagnosis in Australia today.
Although HIV diagnoses in the ACT made up just 1% of the total 1050 diagnoses in Australia in 2009, it is likely that the proportion of people with HIV in the territory is in fact higher, with some people choosing to test elsewhere. And the particular contexts of risk behaviour, and the experiences of living with recent diagnosis may also be quite different from those in other parts of Australia.
In order to better understand people’s experiences of HIV in Canberra, the study team, in partnership with the ACT Health department and the AIDS Action Council of the ACT encourage anyone diagnosed with HIV in the last few years, go to www.hivss.net to find out how you can participate in this important study by sharing your experiences so they can help inform the continually evolving response to HIV, both nationally and at a local level. Or, if you’d just like to know more about HIV in Australia today, the study’s 2010 Annual Report can be accessed at that site.
For more information contact Ian on 02 9385 9954, or at
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This Survey is vital to research and health care promotion on a national level. Helping us learn about your attitudes, behaviours, and experiences around HIV is an important part of helping us overcome the effects this virus has had on our society, and on the communities in which we live. Your participation is completely anonymous, and your story is very important to us. If you have any questions about the survey or about our research team, feel free to contact us at
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This is a study for people who have recently been diagnosed with HIV. Our aim is to collect information about your experiences with HIV, both before and after you were diagnosed. This study will provide valuable information for health promotion efforts and for policy development, and may be used in the development of health promotion materials for men or women in the gay, straight, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender communities.
You are invited to take part in the survey, or the interview components of this research, and the above links will allow you to begin your participation. You may choose to do the survey, the interview, or you can participate in both.
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