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New regulations come into place this month that allow the sale of amyl nitrite, known as poppers, in Australian pharmacies. Amyl nitrite and the broader class of drugs it belongs to, alkyl nitrites, were previously illegal in Australia.

Clinicians, researchers and high-level officials from Myanmar and Australia are eager to increase collaboration and improve health in Myanmar, following the highly successful, inaugural, MARCH Symposium held on the University of ...

If smallpox reappeared, would we be equipped to manage it, or would it spell disaster for the global population? Despite being eradicated 40 years ago, smallpox can be synthetically reproduced in a lab with new technology. This ...

Researchers in Myanmar have released the results of a large study, published in the Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, comparing two treatment regimens for Helicobacter pylori, a bacterial infection that is the world’s most ...

New research from the Kirby Institute published in eLIFE combines studies in monkeys with mathematical modelling to show that latent HIV virus ‘wakes up’ at irregular periods, and that this can be hard to predict from measurements of ...

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 ...

Kirby Institute researchers have found that gay and bisexual men who use crystal methamphetamine during sex (a practice known as chemsex) are more likely to include biomedical HIV prevention strategies when engaging in condomless sex ...

Kirby Institute researchers at UNSW Sydney have received a grant of $841,489 for research that will use gene therapy to uncover a cure for HIV. Yesterday, the Federal Health Minister, the Hon. Greg Hunt announced over $400 million in ...

The Kirby Institute congratulates Dr Sahar Bajis, Dr Ian Down and Dr Angie Pinto on the PhD graduations this week. The three Kirby Institute alumnus received their PhDs at the UNSW Medicine graduation ceremony held on Tuesday 3 ...

As part of a growing expansion into the field of neglected tropical diseases, Kirby Institute researchers are leading a large deworming trial, the first of its kind in the region, in an effort to improve control of intestinal ...

(SYDNEY, Thursday 21 November 2019) A new study from the Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney published today shows that gay and bisexual men who are taking the HIV prevention medication PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) also have ...

Congratulations to the Kirby Institute’s Dr Benjamin Bavinton, who was awarded the 2019 Aileen Plant Memorial Prize in Infectious Diseases Epidemiology last night at the Communicable Diseases Control Conference taking place in Canberra.

The Kirby Institute’s Dr Lucia Romani is helping lead an international push for better scabies control, and has been recognised as one of Australia’s brightest young researchers, with her work now set to help more people through a ...

At the end of 2015, prior to the availability of highly curative direct acting antiviral (DAA) therapy, an estimated 230,000 Australians were living with hepatitis C. Of the 25,000 Australians living with HIV, around 10% were also ...

Researchers at the Kirby Institute are investigating new ways to permanently control – or ‘block and lock’ – HIV-1 infection, and are looking for the next generation of researchers to join this exciting project. HIV infects millions of ...

David ‘Polly’ Polson knows first-hand the life-changing impact that Professor David Cooper had on his patients. When Polly was diagnosed with HIV in 1984, he saw friends and colleagues with the same diagnosis passing away around him.

Kirby Institute researchers have authored a report evaluating whether new HIV at-home or community-based testing models would be an acceptable and feasible approach to boost HIV testing in Papua New Guinea (PNG). “PNG experiences one ...

The Kirby Institute was delighted to host Dr Kerry Chant, Chief Health Officer of NSW, for the 8th Annual Brett Tindall Memorial Lecture on Wednesday night. The lecture is given annually in memory of the late Dr Brett Tindall, who was ...