Tag: HIV/AIDS
The Government has removed HIV from a list of medical conditions “likely to impose significant costs or demands” on the health system.
In a major victory for the rights of people living with HIV, the New Zealand Government has removed HIV from a list of medical conditions “likely to impose...
The Moderna HIV vaccine is modelled on the same technology as their COVID vaccination.
American pharmaceutical company Moderna will begin human trials of a new mRNA (Messenger RNA) HIV vaccine this week.
The vaccine is a collaboration between Moderna, the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) and the Bill and Melinda Gates...
Theatremaker Shane Bosher talks to Oliver Hall about his new award-winning play Everything After which he hopes will become, “a vehicle to have a much bigger conversation about wellbeing, purpose, generation difference and ageing,” in the gay community.
When I first met Shane Bosher over 15 years ago, I was...
Body Positive Executive Director Mark Fisher has called on the government to include People living with the HIV on the priority list as they currently are in Australia.
“We have reached out to the Ministers of Health and the COVID response teams, but have had no response thus far, beyond...
In a statement made today, Body Positive Executive Director Mark Fisher has called on the government to include People living with the HIV on the group 3 vaccine rollout aimed at people who are at risk of getting very sick from COVID-19.
“We have reached out to the Ministers...
Covid 19 has given Michael Stevens and many gay men a familiar feeling; one they never hoped they would have to experience again.
I’ve already lived through one plague that killed so many friends and pretty much upended the world we’d built and taken for granted. I didn’t think I’d...
Finally some good health-related news.
A second person has been cured of HIV, a new study published in The Lancet HIV reports.
The medical journal reports that two and a half years ago, Adam Castillejo - previously identified as the "London patient” - finished HIV antiretroviral therapy and is still free...
