This week is Bisexual Awareness Week, an extension of celebrations leading up to Bi Visibility Day (23 September) each year. Bi+ Collective Australia, a coalition of Bi+ groups across the country, are once again marking the occasion with Australia’s largest bi-centred event, Stand Bi Us. We caught up with Bi+ Community Perth member Duc Dau […]
New South Wales-based LGBTQ+ support and advocacy service ACON have announced the first Pride in Sport Summit will be held this September. The Summit will bring together leaders, sporting icons and advocates to discuss how Australian codes can create more inclusive spaces for people of diverse sexuality and gender to participate in the national passtime. […]
Dementia Australia, Lifeview, and the Victorian Pride Centre have announced the launch of Memory Lane Café at the Victorian Pride Centre. They say this innovative program will provide a safe and inclusive space for people from LGBTIQ+ communities living with dementia and their carers, by creating a pop-up café in which participants can socialise while […]
Preliminary results from one of Australia’s largest randomised controlled trials suggest that HPV-based screening used in the National Cervical Cancer Screening Program is more effective at detecting pre-cancerous changes than the Pap Smear program it replaced. If the early results from the Compass Trial are confirmed when it concludes in 2026, this would allow more […]
Transgender and non-binary adults may be at higher risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease – the most common form of dementia – in later life, due to key risk factors being more prevalent in this population. Research recently published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association shows some risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease […]
Thorne Harbour Health, one of Australia’s largest LGBTIQA+ community-controlled health organisations have announced the launch of an LGBTIQA+ mental health service in Adelaide. Addressing the unique mental health challenges faced by LGBTIQA+ people, this specialist service is a first for South Australia and joins the ACT as the only government funded services nationwide to do […]
Australia is on track to reach the UN AIDS targets of 95-95-95. At the HIV Science Conference in Brisbane Skye McGregor of the Kirby Institute presented a study showing that Australia is on track to achieve the UNAIDS 95-95-95 targets, which call for 95% of all people living with HIV to know their HIV status, […]
Self-testing for syphilis could reduce the sexually transmissible infection’s global impact, a Monash University-led study has found. Syphilis continues to be a major health issue, with an estimated seven million people infected world-wide each year. Published in The Lancet Public Health, the global systematic review found syphilis self-testing was acceptable and feasible to implement. Like […]
Today marks 40 years since the founding of Thorne Harbour Health, Australia’s oldest HIV/AIDS organisation and now one of the largest LGBTIQ+ community controlled health organisations in the country. This month the organisation is hosting a series of exhibitions and community forums to reflect on the past four decades as well as inform the ongoing […]
International migrants in Australia and beyond are at increased risk of HIV infection due to reduced access to a highly effective prevention measure, a world-first global review led by Monash University has found. Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is up to 99 per cent effective in preventing HIV. The antiretroviral tablet is available by prescription and taken […]
