Australia is on track to become one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C, which is part of the global goal from the World Health Organisation (WHO) to eliminate hepatitis C as a public health threat by 2030. However, the ...

(SYDNEY, Tuesday 7 April 2020): The Kirby Institute’s Professor Raina MacIntyre is calling for caution and evidence to give healthcare workers guidance on situations where supplies of appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) are ...

(SYDNEY, Thursday 26 March 2020) A team of world-class researchers and project staff from UNSW Sydney has been seconded to NSW Health to join the fight against COVID-19. In this first phase of the partnership, 13 experts from two of ...

(SYDNEY, Monday 16 March 2019) As a global infectious disease research centre, Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney is closely monitoring and responding to the situation with COVID-19. We are supporting the government’s actions on COVID-19 ...

A world-first trial for a promising gonorrhoea vaccine will be led by Griffith University’s Institute for Glycomics and the Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney. The $2.7 million study incorporates five Australian universities and three ...

Australian, Solomon Islands and British researchers have succeeded in simultaneously treating two debilitating skin diseases – scabies and impetigo – which infect hundreds of millions of people, mostly in tropical countries. The study, ...

(Sydney, 31 January 2019) Leading international HIV researcher and clinician, Professor Anthony Kelleher, has been appointed Director of the Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney. The Kirby Institute has been at the forefront of ...

ViiV Healthcare and the Kirby Institute honour Professor David Cooper with the launch of a regional HIV capacity training program SYDNEY, 19 October 2018: ViiV Healthcare, the global specialist HIV company, and the Kirby Institute, ...

(SYDNEY, Tuesday 21 August 2018) Preparedness could be the difference between a contained local outbreak and a global pandemic if there was a smallpox attack in the Pacific today, a bioterrorism exercise held at UNSW Sydney discovered.

(Sydney, Monday 11 June 2018) The late Scientia Professor David Cooper, who was Director of the Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney for 32 years, has been appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC). He has been recognised for ...

UNSW Professor Lisa Maher has been recognised by the Prime Minister for her work in reducing the harm of drug use. Professor Maher, a drug researcher focused on blood borne viruses, was named the winner of the Prime Minister’s Award ...

Sexually transmissible and blood-borne infections in Australia: the 2012 Surveillance Reports

Taking a TAXI-KAB to better understanding How gay men respond to HIV depends on what they think about factors such as new information about the effect of HIV treatments on HIV transmission, and new testing possibilities. Understanding ...

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