What is Treatment as Prevention?

When should I get tested?

What is PrEP?

What is PEP?

Meridian ACT has developed a factsheet on the Recommended ACT Priorities for Action: HIV 2021

With the following 6 priority areas.

1. Prevention Programs
2. Effective Testing
3. Treatment Programs For Hiv
4. Care And Support
5. Stigma And Discrimination
6. Research, Data, And Information

This is a health policy research project commissioned by the ACT Health Directorate. It aims to extend understandings of the complex and changing needs of the ageing populations living with chronic hepatitis B (HBV), hepatitis C (HCV), and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in the ACT.

Key stats and information about the HIV in Australia in 2020, courtesy of the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations.

This World AIDS Day, we spoke to two inspirational women about their relationship with HIV. Manu Bhat is a HIV positive woman living in India, and Dr Niveditha Manokaran is a Sexual Health, Reproductive Health and HIV clinician living in Sydney. We spoke about their relationship with Dr Suniti Solomon, a late HIV specialist who began matchmaking her HIV+ patients who struggled to find love and marriage.

World AIDS Day memorial, hosted by Meridian on November 29th 2020

Two great pandemics of the past fifty years – HIV and COVID-19 – have shaken societies around the globe. The immediate crisis of COVID-19 has many of the hallmarks of the early HIV pandemic – fear, rapid action, wall-to-wall media coverage and political attention. In time, we learned to live with HIV. As we enter its fourth decade, what insights from HIV can help us live with COVID-19?