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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 ...

“The place was magical, intimate and democratic.” This is how the Honourable Michael Kirby AC, former Justice of the High Court of Australia and patron of the Kirby Institute, described the Purple Onion, Sydney’s first gay bar. “If ...

(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 ...

Kirby Institute research on the sexual health and wellbeing of Australians, HPV vaccination in South African adolescent girls, and improving early treatment initiation for HIV has been supported by almost $4 million in the latest round ...

A new study led by the Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney will explore the impact of support services on the experiences and wellbeing of people who have recently been diagnosed with HIV in Australia. Although HIV diagnoses in Australia ...

The Kirby Institute is delighted to announce that Greg Dore, Head of the Viral Hepatitis Clinical Research Program, has been appointed UNSW Scientia Professor.  Appointment as a UNSW Scientia Professor recognises outstanding ...

UNSW Sydney has appointed nine new Scientia PhD scholarships to the Kirby Institute in 2019. These students will be supervised by Kirby Institute academics who are leaders in their fields, and they will undertake research that will ...

The Kirby Institute has hosted the first of a series of workshops training GPs in techniques to improve screening for anal cancer, thanks to generous ongoing funding from The Glendonbrook Foundation. The workshops include a procedure ...

Congratulations to Dr George Karystianis from the Kirby Institute’s Justice Health Research Program, who along with Dr Oscar Florez Vargas from the National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Health, USA recently ranked 7th in ...

The Kirby Institute would like to congratulate our latest round of PhD graduates, Michael Doyle, Preston Leung, Allison Marshall, Andrew Wong, and Reem Waziry. The five Kirby Institute alumnus were awarded their PhDs at the UNSW ...

(Sydney, Monday 5 November 2018) Virtually nothing is known about the sexual lives of trans and gender diverse people living in Australia. A new survey coordinated by the Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney in collaboration with ...

The now well-established Myanmar-Australia Research Collaboration for Health, or MARCH, aims to improve the management of infectious diseases in Myanmar. The collaboration has a particular focus on encouraging young local clinicians ...

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, Thursday 18 October 2018) Recent HIV infections in gay and bisexual men in New South Wales (NSW) have declined by almost one-third following the trial of an HIV prevention medication called PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis), ...

The University of Medicine 2 (UM2) in Yangon, Myanmar has paid respect to the work of the late Professor David Cooper by dedicating their new laboratory to him, unveiling a memorial plaque in his honour. Professor Cooper, who passed ...

(SYDNEY Australia, Friday 5 October 2018) In the last 10 years, there has been a 90% reduction in genital warts in young Australians aged between 15–20 years, according to new Kirby Institute data presented today at the 32nd ...

Australian researchers have partnered with researchers in the Solomon Islands to advance the fight against neglected tropical diseases in the Pacific by proving that it is possible to safely treat large populations for trachoma and ...