Graduate research students' win for sexual health research

L-R: Dr Ei Aung and Ms Palak Gupta

Congratulations to two of our graduate research students, Dr Ei Aung and Ms Palak Gupta, who won the best presentation at the 2022 Joint Australasian HIV&AIDS + Sexual Health Conferences last week.

Both students are in the Melbourne Sexual Health Centre. Their primary supervisor is Associate Professor Eric Chow. Ei is also co-supervised by Kit Fairley, Jason Ong, Tiffany Phillips and Marcus Chen.

A/Prof Edwina Wright's advocacy for Australian HIV+ patients helps create access to therapy

Congratulations to A/Prof Edwina Wright, Department of Infectious Diseases who successfully chaired a submission to Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC) by ASHM, NAPWA and AFAO, following which, the PBAC lifted CD4+ cell restrictions on prescribing antiretroviral therapy for HIV+ people. This means that all HIV+ people irrespective of how high their CD4+ cells are, or whether or not they have symptoms, can access antiretroviral therapy.  http://ow.ly/t5TNw