As this weekend’s Sydney Mardi Gras Parade approaches, one of Australia’s leading medical research and public health organisations, the Burnet Institute, is calling for increased government and philanthropic support to help the continuing search for a HIV cure which is closer than ever thanks to medical and technological breakthroughs over the past few years.

Researchers involved with the world’s first study exploring whether HIV treatment can reduce transmission specifically in gay male serodiscordant relationships have called for more couples to take part in the important research project.

Two groundbreaking new treatments for chronic hepatitis C (HCV) will now be subsidised through the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS), the Federal Government announced this week.

If you’re looking to play with men at the top of their game, the world’s gay rugby union champions are giving you that chance this weekend in Sydney.

Grants to the value of $6,000 will be made available this year for projects that may shine a light on, or perhaps, improve the health and wellbeing of lesbians and bisexual women living in Australia.

For those who have always wondered how it would feel to don a rugby guernsey and get their head into a ruck as part of a World Cup-winning sports side, you may just get the chance to prove yourself over the next few weeks as Sydney’s very own world-beating Convicts prepare to hold a recruitment drive.

As a Senate committee prepares to hold public hearings in Sydney this week on Labor's draft national anti-discrimination laws, there’s growing outrage within the LGBTI community and elsewhere over the wide-ranging exemptions offered to religious bodies and other groups that will allow them to continue to legally discriminate against people on several grounds including sexual orientation and gender identity.

Volunteers and others who helped ACON with last year’s Red Ribbon Appeal have been congratulated and thanked after raising approximately $90,000 across NSW during fundraising events for 2012 World AIDS Day.

In an apparent bid to drive a wedge between members of the LGBTI community, Queensland Health Minister Lawrence Springborg has claimed HIV health promoters have sold out the community.

Rapid HIV testing, which promises results in under half-an-hour, is set to become a reality next year and beyond with the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) today approving the first rapid HIV test for use in Australia.

Groups and organisations representing the country’s diverse sex and gender (DSG) community have called for the Federal Government to urgently act on the recommendations of a groundbreaking report released by the National LGBTI Health Alliance last week.

The Australian Federation of AIDS Organisation (AFAO) has this week called for a three pronged approach of testing, treatment and targets to help achieve the goals of the UN Political Declaration on HIV, as peak AIDS organisations joined the Department of Health in rejecting criticisms that Australia’s HIV reporting regime was severely lacking. 

Just over a week ahead of World AIDS Day on December 1, the Bobby Goldsmith Foundation (BGF) has received confirmation that it will soon become the first organisation in Australia to conduct the groundbreaking Stanford University Positive Self-Management Program for HIV.

A report into discrimination and stigma experienced by people living with HIV has called for new initiatives to build resilience amongst HIV-positive people while also urging the NSW Government to drop controversial criminal laws forcing HIV-positive to disclose their status to sexual partners.

In what is thought to be a first for a HIV prevention campaign, a new campaign by ACON will aim to increase gay men’s knowledge about the degrees of risk involved in not using condoms when they are having sex.