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The Kirby Institute’s program of research to discover a COVID-19 therapy using antibodies has received a $2.5 million boost from the Australian Government’s Department of Health Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF). The funding, ...

A UNSW biosecurity expert has featured in a commentary piece in prestigious journal The Lancet, analysing important new WHO-commissioned research. (SYDNEY, Tuesday 2 June 2020) A combination of spatial distancing and personal face ...

Face mask use at home could be an effective strategy in curbing the transmission of COVID-19, according to new research published today in BMJ Global Health. The research indicates that the use of face masks could reduce household ...

At a high-security lab at UNSW Sydney, scientists are working around the clock to develop treatments and therapies to manage COVID-19. Sherry Landow from UNSW Media and Content spoke to some of the researchers about what their days ...

(SYDNEY, Wednesday, 29 April 2020) As global COVID-19 cases multiply, medical researchers fear for how the pandemic will impact the world’s most marginalised populations. In particular, people living with HIV in resource-poor, ...

Written by Sherry Landow for the UNSW Newsroom Investigating the virus’ lifespan, creating safe virus lookalikes, and studying immunotherapy solutions are just some of the collaborative research projects happening in a high-level ...

Current advice for COVID-19 health workers is based on the assumption that droplets bearing the virus travel no further than 2 metres and do not remain in the air. The body of published evidence suggests otherwise. Healthcare workers ...

Face masks have been a topic of critical health importance in 2020. The dialogue currently surrounds their use in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. But it was only a matter of months ago that Australia saw its most devastating ...

(Thursday 16 April 2020) The Australian Government has today announced a new program that will deliver COVID-19 test results within 45 minutes to remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, that have previously had to ...

A world-first Australian study could help determine which existing treatments are protective against COVID-19 (SYDNEY, Wednesday 15 April 2020) A world-first Australian study will observe and evaluate the impact of COVID-19 on people ...

(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 ...

The Kirby Institute mourns the loss of Professor Gita Ramjee, a global leader in HIV prevention research, who has died from COVID-19 complications in Durban, South Africa.  Gita was passionate about finding new methods for HIV ...

As the World Health Organisation keeps reminding health officials around the world, in order to get COVID-19 under control, we must “test, test, test”. Along with tracing contacts of cases, travel bans and social distancing, testing is ...

(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 ...

The prime minister earlier today announced that from May 1, people need to be vaccinated against the flu before visiting an aged care facility. The idea is to limit the risk of the “dreaded duo” of respiratory diseases – influenza and ...

(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 ...

As authors of the three studies that informed the U=U Scientific Consensus Statement on ‘the risk of sexual transmission of HIV from a person living with HIV who has an undetectable viral load (UVL)’, we write to reconfirm our ...

(SYDNEY, Thursday 20 February 2020) Three quarters of Australian young people who come into contact with the justice system have experienced some form of abuse, according to a new report released today by the Kirby Institute at UNSW ...