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| End of Year Edition |
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| A wonderful year, an exciting 2020 |
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For me, 2019 has been an amazing year. Joining ARCSHS has been an extremely positive experience and I feel I’ve learned a lot already.
The Centre has enjoyed some great successes, with flagship projects such as HIV Futures and Writing Themselves In attracting record numbers of participants, promising exceptionally strong findings. We thank our community partners for supporting all our research in ways that make such achievements possible.
We’ve held a number of highly successful events, including Val’s LGBT&I Ageing & Aged Care Conference; the HIV Intersections symposium; and the Future of Enhancement symposium, which looked at men’s performance and image-enhancing drug consumption. The first ARCSHS Oration, in which I gave a lecture introducing myself and a panel of distinguished speakers responded, was very well attended. I offer my personal thanks to all who supported the event. We also re-launched Gay and Lesbian Health Victoria (GLHV) as Rainbow Health Victoria, also with a highly successful special event.
Also to be counted among our successes was an ARC Discovery Early Career Fellowship on men and intimacy in a digital age (congratulations Andrea Waling!) and two ARC Discovery Projects on the social, political and legal aspects of hepatitis C treatment. This research will begin in 2020, along with a range of other new initiatives aiming to build on and further develop ARCSHS’ exceptional record of research, collaboration, training and impact.
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Best wishes,
Professor
Suzanne Fraser
Director,
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| In this Newsletter |
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| ARCSHS Oration 2019: An insightful disscusion |
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| The address, Constituting social ‘problems’: The role of social research in defining and addressing social issues, was opened with a lecture from ARCSHS Director Professor Suzanne Fraser followed by an insightful panel discussion. You can listen to the entire oration on souncloud here. |
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| Report Launch |
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| Understanding performance and image-enhancing drug injecting: Report |
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| To improve health and minimise hepatitis C transmission: Findings and recommendations from a national qualitative project. A new report from the Drugs Gender and Sexuality research program at ARCSHS is now available for download here. |
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| HIV: Every journey counts |
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| HIV Intersectionality symposium success |
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| In the week before World AIDS Day ARCSHS BBV Program hosted a symposium looking critically at the intersection points of HIV and people’s lives, especially people and communities affected by HIV who have not been at the centre of the Australian HIV response. You can listen to Women on the Line's podcast of the symposium here. |
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| International conference |
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| Congress of the World Association for Sexual Health |
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| Emeritus Professor Gary Dowsett delivered a keynote plenary address at the 24th WAS held in Mexico City in October. The address was titled ‘Infection and Identity, Desire and Disease: Gay men, HIV/AIDS and the history of sexuality’. ARCSHS Associate Professor Christopher Fisher also presented, you can read more here.
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| RECENT PUBLICATIONS |
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| Check out our top ARCSHS picks for this quarter |
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| Use of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) associated with lower HIV anxiety among gay and bisexual men in Australia who are at high risk of HIV infection |
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| doi: 10.1097/QAI.0000000000002232 |
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| Health, well-being, and social support in older Australian lesbian and gay care-givers |
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| DOI:10.1111/hsc.12854 |
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| ARCSHS in the media |
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| Check out our top highlights for this quarter |
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| Dr Jen Power and Associate Professor Graham Brown wrote the article ‘The beautiful HIV-positive community’: Queer Eye’s Jonathan Van Ness shines a spotlight on the changing face of HIV on the Conversation |
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| Read the article on the Conversation's website here |
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