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(SYDNEY, Wednesday 3 July 2019) Australia continues to lead the world in HIV prevention and in 2018 recorded the lowest number of HIV diagnoses since 2001. According to a report released today by the Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney, ...

Results of a two-year update of the world's first comparative trial of mass drug administration against scabies, show that the infection rate is still significantly down. The latest findings are published today in The New England ...

The Kirby Institute, in collaboration with the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC), have hosted the first meeting of the new ASCEND Program Grant, an innovative new partnership designed to address issues of drug ...

New Kirby Institute research, published in the Journal of AIDS, has investigated the factors that influence gay and bisexual men’s use of PrEP in Australia, and found that many are not using PrEP, despite being at risk of HIV. To

(SYDNEY, Saturday 15 June 2019) A deliberate release of smallpox in a big city is a nightmare public health scenario, but new research by the Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney published today in PLOS One suggests that the worst can be ...

The UNSW Scientia PhD Scholarship Scheme offers scholars of exceptional quality the opportunity to work on research projects aligned with the UNSW 2025 strategy. These prestigious scholarships offer unique benefits, individualised ...

Meet the hardworking people who coordinate our world-leading clinical research  The Kirby Institute is a world leader in clinical research, and has been coordinating large-scale trials, in Australia and internationally, for more ...

Dr Behzad Hajarizadeh is a Senior Lecturer and NHMRC fellow in the Viral Hepatitis Clinical Research Program at the Kirby Institute. Behzad received Medicine's research excellence as an early career academic at last year's Research and ...

(SYDNEY, Wednesday 17 April 2019) A new study from the Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney has found that with the move from pap smear to DNA testing for human papillomavirus (HPV) to prevent cervical cancer, there is risk that a now rare ...

(VIENNA, Saturday 13 April 2019) Hepatitis C treatments are safe and highly curable, even when patients are not monitored in the clinic throughout the treatment period, according to new Kirby Institute research presented at the ...

The Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney has received $2.2 million from the National Health and Medical Research Council, industry and other partners for a world-first study, called TEMPO, which will test a new intervention to scale-up ...

To mark the one-year anniversary of the passing of Professor David Cooper AC, much-beloved inaugural Director of the Kirby Institute and world-renowned immunology expert, UNSW held a small gathering to honour David’s legacy and support ...

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, ...

The majority of Australian parents are susceptible to influence by vaccine messages from political and medical leaders, according to a new study by researchers at UNSW Sydney. Elissa Zhang, a medical student from UNSW Medicine, was ...

The Kirby Institute’s Dr Louise Causer was awarded the Frank Fenner Early Career Fellowship at the NHMRC’s Research Excellence Awards dinner last night in Canberra. The award recognises Dr Causer as the top-ranked successful NHMRC ...

A team from the Therapeutic and Vaccine Research Program (TVRP) at the Kirby Institute recently travelled to Conakry, Guinea in order to prepare to open an international randomised trial of simplified HIV second-line therapy at Donka ...

Today, the Kirby Institute launched a new research capacity building initiative, the Cooper HIV/AIDS Research Training (CHART) Program.  Thanks to an unconditional grant from ViiV Healthcare, the Kirby Institute has developed a ...

(Sydney, Monday 18 February 2019) The risk of biosecurity threats is increasing, and an attack could expose vulnerabilities in global systems with potentially catastrophic effects, a white paper published today in the first edition of ...