As Australia’s only Gay & Lesbian radio station JOY 94.9 prepares to cross live to 20thInternational AIDS Conference AIDS 2014, we are joined in the studio by international HIV agitator, AIDS activist and award winning columnist Mark S. King. His blog “My Fabulous Disease” provides up-to-date commentary on the global HIV response. Diagnosed HIV positive in 1985, Mark’s openness about…
Victoria’s HIV Law: Section 19A and the necessity for its abolition
Victoria is the only State in Australia to have a specific law criminalising the transference of HIV. Section 19A of the Crimes Act 1958 (Vic) establishes the criminal offence of ‘intentionally causing a very serious disease’ – with ‘very serious disease’ defined exclusively to mean HIV infection. The offence carries a maximum penalty of up…
National HIV Strategy, Section 19a and Transmissions
Earlier this week the Federal Health Minister, The Hon. Peter Dutton MP, accompanied by Victoria’s Minister for Health David Davis, launched the National HIV Strategy for 2014-2017. Amongst the highlights were new arrangements for dispensing HIV medications and the potential for Australia to soon see “Self HIV Test Kits” on the shelves of your local chemist….
Bringing AIDS 2014 to Melbourne
AIDS 2014 is the largest conference ever to be staged in Australia and it’s coming to Melbourne, July 20-25. Today on Word For Word, Dean Beck speaks to the CEO of the Melbourne Convention Bureau (MCB) Karen Bolinger and the Chief Executive of the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC), Peter King. Seventeen years ago…
Victoria’s HIV infection data for 2013
Victoria’s Health Minister the Hon. David Davis joins Dean Beck to discuss the latest HIV infection data for 2013. Last week Victoria’s Department of Health revealed that 303 people were diagnosed HIV positive in 2013. This represents a 16% increase on the 2012 figures. Such high figures have not been seen since the early 1990′s….
Ending HIV Stigma: ENUF Special Episode
At the close of business last Friday 27th of June, Victoria’s Department of Health listed somewhere on their web site, how many Victorian’s received an HIV positive diagnosis last year. 303 Victorians were diagnosed HIV positive in 2013. That is an 16% increase on the 2012 figures. Victoria’s Health Minister David Davis had 303 reasons…
Drug use and HIV with Dr Marcus Day
Dr Marcus Day is a leading expert on the sexual transmission of HIV associated with non-injecting crack cocaine use and HIV in the Caribbean.
Professor Chris Beyrer
Chris Beyrer is considered to be one of the world’s leading experts in the transference of HIV among gay men or men who have sex with men and is President Elect of the International AIDS Society (IAS).
Nobel Laureate Professor Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
Professor Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, PhD, is the Director of the “Regulation of Retroviral Infections” Unit, at the Institut Pasteur in Paris.
International Candlelight Memorial 2014
On a day of activism which saw 10,000 people march through the streets of Melbourne protesting the recent Federal Budget decisions, a gathering of a very different kind quietly emerged as the sun was setting down Collins Street. At the northern end of Melbourne’s City Square over 400 people gathered before a small stage, in…