Infectious Diseases

We have expertise in specific infectious diseases of global health significance – HIV, hepatitis viruses, influenza, malaria and emerging infectious diseases.

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    Hepatitis B

    A blood-borne virus that attacks the liver causing both acute and chronic disease, hepatitis B affects two billion people.

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    Hepatitis C

    Infecting more than three percent of the world’s population, it causes chronic liver disease, cirrhosis and liver cancer.

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    HIV and AIDS

    It has been 30 years since the emergence of HIV and AIDS and yet it still remains one of the greatest challenges to human health.

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    Influenza & Other Emerging Infectious Diseases

    Malaria, tuberculosis and novel diseases like avian influenza and pandemic influenza are just some of the issues tackled.

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    Malaria

    A simple mosquito bite is all it takes for a young child in a poor tropical country to develop this life-threatening disease.

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    Safe Motherhood and Healthy Childhood

    Without proper access to quality health care, women and children continue to suffer and die from preventable illnesses in the developing world.

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    Sexually Transmitted Infections

    HIV and other sexually transmitted infections notifications have risen in Australia for the past 10 years.

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    Tuberculosis (TB)

    Every second, someone in the world is newly infected with tuberculosis (TB), a highly contagious air-borne disease.