Final results from a huge French PrEP study finds both daily and on-demand (aka 2-1-1) oral PrEP are safe and effective for HIV prevention.
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Final results from a huge French PrEP study finds both daily and on-demand (aka 2-1-1) oral PrEP are safe and effective for HIV prevention.
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📣 New paper in Social Science & Medicine!
Evidencing work: implementing HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis and
on-demand dosing in Australia
#sts #hiv #prep #evidence #expertise @martinxholt.bsky.social @anthonykjsmith.bsky.social
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Say the hero’s name. Ahmed Al Ahmed. #Sydney #Bondi
Black text on white background underneath the Australian coat of arms at the top. Larger text near the top says "SENATOR DAVID POCOCK", "MEDIA RELEASE" and the headline in the largest print says "ARC RESTRUCTURE RISKS JOBS"?.
“This feels like yet another attack on our research community that is already under siege”
Senator @davidpocock.bsky.social has issued a media release about the ARC's proposed restructure and job cuts 👇
Screenshot of tweet from the ARC saying they will announce DP26 outcomes on Tuesday 28th Oct, and LP25r1 outcomes on Wednesday 29th.
ARC says Discovery Projects outcomes will be tomorrow (Tuesday). Linkage Projects (2025, round 1) on Wed. Over past ~year, it's often been at about 11am (Canberra).
My bot will pick up the change to RMS & post immediately.
ARC should email outcomes to lead CIs, but might take an 1hr or so for DPs
The evaluation of Australia's first free national HIV self-testing project now available. With nearly 8,000 orders in the project’s first year, HIVTest.au demonstrated strong national demand for
free, direct-to-consumer HIV self-testing kits delivered by post. doi.org/10.26190/uns...
New fellowship program at UNSW for international researchers whose work focuses on sustainability, prosperity, health, or social cohesion. Closes 10th August.
In essence, they average the scores (take the median) from the Detailed Assessors' scores, and then add them to the average of the General Assessor scores.
This has come up for us too as DP applicants write their rejoinders. There is a bit of information about how a different number of assessments is handled on this page www.arc.gov.au/funding-rese...
New (open access paper): #mpox #vaccination coverage among Australian gay and bisexual men and non-binary people. 42% fully vaxxed. Lower vax levels among bi+, overseas born and in suburban/regional areas. @anthonykjsmith.bsky.social @curtisxchan.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
Good luck to Australian researchers waiting for the DP EoI outcomes today!
New open access paper by Simin Yu assessing effects of migration status on the HIV care cascade among gay and bisexual men living with HIV in Australia. There was a lower level of treatment among recently arrived migrants, underscoring the importance of free access for all doi.org/10.1111/hiv....
In these unthinkably dark days for global public health I’m proud to share the results of this international survey which describes the challenging and distressing experiences of clinicians in 12 countries during the 2022/23 #mpox pandemic.
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An NHMRC review of clinical guidelines for trans and gender diverse kids and young people has been announced, it’s a good idea. The NHMRC can be relied upon to make considered, evidence based recommendations for nationally consistent treatment guidelines that (1/n) www.health.gov.au/ministers/th...
The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.
HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻
archive.org/details/2025...
We conducted a latent class analysis of 1032 surveys from GBMSM in Australia, and found that social support, social engagement with LGBTQ+ people, and LGBTQ+ community involvement was associated with HIV testing and PrEP uptake. Available to read open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Looking forward to hearing about and discussing #HIV prevention and ways to assess our progress with colleagues here in Auckland. I think there is still time to register and follow online www.spots.org.nz/symposium2025
Hi Liz! Good to hear from you. I confess I’ve not been very active here but will see if that improves this year. Hope you’re well!
An alternative interpretation is that we age out of being queer, but I’m sticking to my generational interpretation! More of us on the way.
I thought it was about right. The age distribution is crazy though (1 in 10 in the youngest bracket). Wild generational change (or at least much more openness to expression) going on there!
More from the ABS on the release here: www.abs.gov.au/media-centre...
And the answer is: 4.5% of Australians aged 16 years and over are LGBTI+, very similar to findings from NZ. www.abs.gov.au/statistics/p...
The Australian Bureau of Statistics is scheduled to release data on population estimates and characteristics of #LGBTI+ people in Australia at 11.30am AEDT today. Any guesses about how many of us there will be? www.abs.gov.au/release-cale...
Preprint on levels of #mpox vaccination among Australian gay & bisexual men & non-binary people in early 2024. 54% reported any vaccination. Younger & bi+ participants, people born in Asia and Latin America, and those living outside inner city areas were less likely to be vaccinated. #sexualhealth
New open access article from our team.
Event-driven / on-demand (AKA 2-1-1) PrEP use has tripled between 2019-2023 in Australia, with 28% of gay/bi men and other men who have sex with men now using event-driven PrEP in 2023.
Read here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Because cats (really pushing to fluff up my bsky algorithm as much as possible)
Black text on a white background that says: "Benjamin Riley Memory Pill / Amnesia Pill: PrEP, AIDS Generations and Gay Sexual Imaginaries Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences The University of Sydney"
My masters thesis is up online to read!! If you're interested in gay stuff, AIDS memory, sex, HIV anxiety and big feelings about inaccessible/imagined histories, have a look 🙂 ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/...
Screenshot of a tweet from the ARC saying they’ll announce DP25 grant outcomes tomorrow (Tuesday 26 Nov).
ARC says they’ll release the Discovery Projects 2025 outcomes tomorrow.
Recently, outcomes announcements have tended to happen at/around 11am Canberra time.
My bot will pick up the announcement in RMS’s database and post immediately.
Good luck!
