Vol. 8.1

• Stop the Drama Downunder! BEN WILCOCK profiles a multimedia campaign targetingrising STI rates among gay men 

April 2010

Vol. 7.3

• Solutions to stigma DANIEL REEDERS examines the operations of stigma and proposes some strategies to challenge it.
• Would you wear it? The development of ACON’s inclusion campaign SOLOMON WONG and MICHELLE SPARKS on ACON’s recent campaign against racism in the LGBT community.

Last updated 18 July 2009

Vol. 7.2

• HIV Positive Capacity Building James Watson found new confidence through training as a peer interviewer in community-based research

Last updated 16 July 2009

Vol. 7.1

• Think again Dean Murphy and Jeanne Ellard examine the issue of responsibility and agency or the power to act as articulated in HIV education materials targeting gay men.

• The controversy of youth Jennifer Power looks at controversial campaigns that targeted same-sex attracted youth

Last updated 8 April 2009

 Vol. 5 No. 3

• Something positive about serosorting Kane Race on the complexities of serosorting
• Positive speakers: a pathway to empowerment for people living with HIV/AIDS Max Niggl reflects on twenty years of Positive Speakers in Victoria

• Reflections of a social scientist on doing HIV social research Professor Susan Kippax reflects on the convergence between HIV and social research

• Some thoughts on workforce development in HIV education Jen Hamer, Iain Henderson and David Vermeeren on the complexities of finding and keeping HIV educators

Last Updated: 17 September 2008

Vol. 6 No. 1

• Cheating “What is Cheating?” asks Juliet Richters
• Sexual Learning Learning about sex, sexual health and HIV takes place in numerous different ways for gay men reports Dean Murphy
• Negative Serosorting and HIM Limin Mao asks the question “Are HIV negative gay men in the Health in Men cohort increasingly engaging in unprotected anal intercourse with other HIV negative partners?”
• AIDS 2006: MSM Event Russell Westacott reports back from the MSM Satellite held at the Toronto AIDS Conference.

Updated: 19 November 2007

Vol. 5 No. 3

• HIV prevention and health promotion – online examples from Gay Men’s Health Crisis, New York CityRussell Westacott reflects on the way the internet is being used for HIV education.

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Vol. 5 No. 2

October - December 2005

• Media messages Over the years, there has been substantial shift in the way Australia’s media reports on HIV from reporting on the bizarre, shocking or different to HIV treatment and its economic cost. ROSS DIFFIN looks at the media shifts over the last 20 years.

• Crystal meth – Big Apple styleNew Yorkresponded to a sharp rise in crystal use with a spate of controversial campaigns. Balanced information went up in smoke as messages screaming “You want to kill yourself? Go kill yourself.” and “Meth=Death” began popping up across the city. RUSSELL WESTACOT reports.

Education Briefs | Search HIV Australia 

Vol. 5 No. 1

July - September 2005

• Educating OnlineBy Dean Murphy
• Net-working reports from AIDS Councils about Internet outreach work.

Prevention

Vol 4. No. 3
March - May 2005

• Love and risk - what the research tells us. MICHAEL SALTER reports.
• A new role for positives in prevention DAVID MENADUE talks about sex, barebacking and the role of plwha organisations in promoting HIV prevention.
• Staying negative COLIN BATROUNEY talks about a unique education campaign developed by the Victorian AIDS Council that taps into the mess of life.

Human rights

Vol. 4 No. 2
December 2004 - February 2005

• Consent and approval in medical research: the place of communities JOHN KALDOR and IONA MILLWOOD look at the risks of medical research.

Bangkok reports

Vol. 4 No. 1
September - November 2004

• Turning back the tide SIMON DONOHOE reports on a landmark satellite conference addressing the issues facing major gay communities around the world.
• Momentum! ANDY QUAN presents a summary of the Southeast and East Asia Treatment Education and Advocacy Workshop in Pattaya, 2004

The Crystal issue

Vol. 3 No. 4 June - August 2004

• Thinking Gay Community An overview of a recent NCHSR research project looking at young gay men and attitudes towards 'gay community' and HIV.
• The Crystal Conundrum SIMON DONOHOE examines the challenges facing HIV educators surrounding the rising use of crystal amphetamine among gay men, the increase in HIV infections and the association between the two.
• Rises in rates of HIV and the role of methamphetamine use MICHAEL LODGE looks at the media discourse around the increase in crystal meth usage, the rise in HIV-infection rates and the association between the two.

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Vol. 3. No. 2

February 2004

• PHILLIP KEEN reports on the release of a national campaign to encourage men who have sex with men to start testing for STIs.
• KATHY TRIFFIT talks about a new campaign by PLWHA NSW designed to raise awareness and support discussion about some of the issues that have an impact on HIV positive sex.
• Post exposure prophylaxis and the controversial use of pre exposure prophylaxis are beginning to get a lot more attention.

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September - November 2003

• DERMOT RYAN addresses some of the challenges facing educators in the current environment.
• The VINES study looks at gay men’s sexual cultures by focussing on the social and relational networks of gay men in Melbourne. Dr JEFFREY GRIERSON reports.
• SERENA MAWULISA and KENN ROBINSON look at the unique role that Australia’s sex workers play in HIV and sexual health education.

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Women and HIV - Vol 2. No. 4

June - August 2003

• Heterosexual men in Australia are not using condoms. MICHAEL FLOOD looks at what’s holding young men back from slipping it on.
• KARALYN MCDONALD reports on research into the lives and experiences of HIV positive women.
• NEIL POETSCHKA and DR SOULANY CHANSY report on Gender education in Laos
• AFAO is attempting to address treatment issues for Indigenous people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) with the release of a new information resource, HIV/AIDS and Us Mob, reports MICHAEL COSTELLO.

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Changing faces - Vol. 2. No. 3

April/May 2003

• Cipri Martinez on the development of an HIV positive peer education guide.
• HIV positive people need to be recognied as partners by community organisations and social research partners, SEAN SLAVIN reports.

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Focus on the Asia-Pacific - Vol 2. No. 2

November/December 2002

• Sharyn Casey reports on an Australian study tour for three HIV positive activists from Papua New Guinea;
• Braiden Abala on HIV in Cambodia has the highest HIV prevalence rates in South East Asia; and
• John Cumming provides an overview of recent educational efforts aroundsexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV.

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Reports from Barcelona - Vol 2. No.1

September/October 2002

Think Tank talks loveDermot Ryan reports on his involvement with the Gay Men's Think Tank. (PDF, 12 KB)

SexinqueerplacesPhillip Keen reports on an Internet initative that's fun, interactive, and sexy.

Vol. 1. No. 4

June/July 2002

A challenge to the marketing of antiretrovirals in San Francisco; Young Gay Men: The City and Identity; and the implementation of the National training agenda for HIV/AIDS educators of gay and other men who have sex with men.

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HIV Australia Vol 1. No 3,

April - May 2002

Circuit boys A carefully selected group of gay men have formed a Gay Men’s Health Think Tank that holds meetings around the world to discuss issues of importance. MATHEW JONES reports

HIV Australia Vol 1. No. 1.

December 2001 - January 2002

The impact of post exposure prophylaxis on behavioural interventions; and the rise in HIV infections in Victoria.

 

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