The main objectives of this work is to provide M&E technical support to LHDs and other government or community-based organisations across NSW, guided by the NSW Sexual Health Promotion Framework.
PAART (Predictors of Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy) is an open, prospective clinical observational cohort, established in October 2013. Patients are recruited from hospital outpatient clinics, sexual health clinics and high HIV-caseload general practices.
Informing and evaluating online sexual health promotion for young people in NSW.
The Centre for Social Research in Health has been commissioned to inform and evaluate two major sexual health promotion initiative in NSW: Play Safe and Live Nation.
The Positive Health study was an open cohort study of HIV-positive gay and other homosexual men living in New South Wales. The study focussed on HIV testing and markers of health, treatment and care, sexual practices and attitudes, sexual health testing and other issues.
Young people in contact with the criminal justice system who have problematic use of drugs and alcohol often lack opportunities for social and economic participation in society and many continue offending into adulthood.
The aim of this project is to explore and describe the period following completion of interferon-based treatment for hepatitis C infection with a focus on documenting persistent treatment-related psychiatric and physical after effects.
This qualitative pilot study explored key issues associated with the transition to adolescence and adulthood for children living with HIV in NSW, and the implications of these for health, HIV prevention and clinical care in NSW.
Implementation of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis with antiretroviral medications among people at high risk for HIV infection
This project is evaluating the off-label provision of daily pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to people at high risk of HIV infection and informing policy development
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) was subsidised by the Australian Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) in April 2018. GPs and HIV/sexual health specialists are key actors to prescribing PrEP to get maximal coverage of populations at risk of acquiring HIV, particularly gay and bisexual men.
This three-year multi-method study was conducted at the National Centre in HIV Social Research at The University of New South Wales in collaboration with the Disciplines of General Practice at The University of Sydney and The University of Adelaide, the Clinical Research Unit for Anxiety and Depr
Attitudes of the HIV workforce to emerging HIV prevention technologies
This survey examines the attitudes of clinicians, policy makers, activists and health promotion workers to classic, community initiated, emerging and promising HIV biomedical prevention technologies: condom use, sero
The aims of this project were to conduct a pilot study of an online survey of (1) young people exposed to injecting, to examine their knowledge regarding hepatitis C prevention and transmission, and to examine the factors associated with high/low levels of knowledge, and (2) of young people more
The project will incorporate policy analysis, historical, archival, textual and online research together with individual interviews and focus groups with two different generations of gender and sexual minority youth: those of the 1970s generation, who were between 16-25 years old in 1995, and their counterparts twenty years later aged 16-25 years growing up today.
