Dear <<First Name>>,

Welcome to the first Health+Law newsletter for 2024. It’s the start of another big year for the Health+Law research partnership and we are delighted to be able to share some project updates and highlights with you.

Recently Published

Health+Law recently published two articles, HIV Related Legal Needs, Demographic Change, and Trends in Australia since 1992: A Review of Legal Administrative Data and The Legal Needs of People Living with a Sexually Transmissible Infection or Blood-Borne Virus: Perspectives From a Sample of the Australian Sexual Health and Blood-Borne Virus Workforce.

Both articles represent a critical first step towards understanding the legal needs of people living with HIV and Viral Hepatitis.

You can read both articles in full via our blog using the links below.

The Legal Needs of People Living with a Sexually Transmissible Infection or Blood-Borne Virus: Perspectives From a Sample of the Australian Sexual Health and Blood Borne Virus Workforce

Advocacy and Education

As part of the Health+Law research partnership’s involvement in advocacy and education campaigns in relation to blood-borne viruses, Health+Law Chief Investigators Dr Anthea Vogl and Dr David Carter and Research Assistant Dr Elsher Lawson-Boyd authored a Brief on Blood-Borne Virus (BBV) Infection via Spitting or Biting.

You can read a summary and the full brief on our blog using the link below.

Brief on Blood-Borne Virus (BBV) Infection via Spitting or Biting

Welcome Dion Kagan

We have welcomed Dr Dion Kagan, into the role of Research Associate, focusing primarily on data analysis and reporting. Dion is a humanities and social sciences researcher with an interest in blood-borne viruses and the health of vulnerable communities. Dion recently completed a major project on policy, legal and lived experience aspects of hepatitis C, and has previously worked on a range of social research projects addressing HIV, sexuality, media, technology and public health. Dion completed a PhD in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne.

Sector Highlight

Professor Kate Seear, research lead in the Gender, Law and Drugs (GLaD) program at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society (ARCSHS) at La Trobe University and one of Health+Law’s expert advisors, commenced a three-year research project in 2020 addressing legal, policy and practice discrimination related to hepatitis C in a post-cure world.

You can read the full blog post about the project and a link to the summary using the link below.

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The Health+Law Research Partnership is supported by funding from the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care, under the Blood Borne Viruses (BBV) and Sexually Transmissible Infections (STI) Research and Data Program.

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