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HIV and Sexually Transmitted Infection Prevention

Head: Professor Mark Stoové

Conducts innovative research aimed at understanding the transmission and prevention of HIV.

In Australia, HIV notifications increased substantially in the early 2000s and have remained intractably high since. While recent scale-up of biomedical HIV prevention strategies have the potential to impact the HIV epidemic in Australia, challenges remain for ensuring their equitable deployment and optimal strategic investment. HIV is also a major public health issue across Southeast Asia where approximately 10 per cent of the world’s 37 million adults and children are living with HIV reside. Our main aims are:

  • Undertaking research involving the groups most at risk and vulnerable to HIV, including men who have sex with men, people who inject drugs, young people and people from culturally and linguistically diverse communities
  • Integrating findings from our surveillance, epidemiology and research work to inform policy and practice to prevent HIV transmission.

We conduct innovative epidemiological and implementation research aimed at understanding the transmission and prevention of HIV, with a particular focus on those populations most at risk, such as men who have sex with men, and people who inject drugs.

Suck It and See and COUNT

Suck It and See was Australia’s first HIV community bio-prevalence that aimed to measure and better understand undiagnosed HIV among gay men in Melbourne. The importance of undiagnosed HIV in driving the epidemic has become increasingly recognised, and the HIV Prevention group later collaborated with the University of NSW to undertake Australia’s first national study of undiagnosed HIV – COUNT.

PRONTO! Community-Based Rapid HIV Testing Services

In collaboration with the Victorian AIDS Council and the Victorian Government, the HIV Prevention group led the establishment of Australia’s first shop-front, community-based and peer-led, HIV testing service for gay men as part of a two-year trial. The Victorian AIDS Council has since established the PRONTO! service as an integral part of Victoria’s community and clinical HIV prevention and care landscape. Burnet Institute continues to monitor testing at PRONTO! and evaluate service outcomes.

Suck it and See

was Australia’s first HIV community bio-prevalence that aimed to measure and better understand undiagnosed HIV among gay men in Melbourne.

PRONTO!

In collaboration with the Victorian AIDS Council and the Victorian Government, the HIV Prevention group led the establishment of Australia’s first shop-front, community-based and peer-led, HIV testing service for gay men as part of a two-year trial.

Professor Mark A Stoové

Professor Stoové is Head of Public Health, co-Head of the HIV Elimination Program at Burnet Institute where he also and heads research groups in HIV Prevention and Justice Health.

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ACCESS: The Australian Collaboration for Coordinated Enhanced Sentinel Surveillance of Sexually Transmissible Infections and Blood Borne Viruses
PROJECT ACCESS: The Australian Collaboration for Coordinated Enhanced Sentinel Surveillance of Sexually Transmissible Infections and Blood Borne Viruses
Ageing Well with HIV
PROJECT Ageing Well with HIV
ACCESS Myanmar: Assessing the feasibility of an integrated HIV cascade of care surveillance system in Myanmar
PROJECT ACCESS Myanmar: Assessing the feasibility of an integrated HIV cascade of care surveillance system in Myanmar
Co-EC Study: Eliminating hepatitis C/HIV coinfection
PROJECT Co-EC Study: Eliminating hepatitis C/HIV coinfection
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Development of a test for diagnosis of active syphilis
PROJECT Development of a test for diagnosis of active syphilis
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Efficacy Assessment of a new point-of-care test (POCT) for confirmation of active syphilis in men who have sex with men
PROJECT Efficacy Assessment of a new point-of-care test (POCT) for confirmation of active syphilis in men who have sex with men
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HIV Prevention Cohort
PROJECT HIV Prevention Cohort
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Improved point-of-care test to eliminate congenital syphilis
PROJECT Improved point-of-care test to eliminate congenital syphilis
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Improving access to CD4 testing among people living with HIV in low- and middle-income countries
PROJECT Improving access to CD4 testing among people living with HIV in low- and middle-income countries
Novel Point-of-care Testing for Diagnosis of Active Syphilis in Pregnant Women and Infants in Fiji
PROJECT Novel Point-of-care Testing for Diagnosis of Active Syphilis in Pregnant Women and Infants in Fiji
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Plasma separator device for HIV viral load testing (VLPlasma®)
PROJECT Plasma separator device for HIV viral load testing (VLPlasma®)
PrEPX: Rapid scale-up of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)
PROJECT PrEPX: Rapid scale-up of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)
Project Geldom
PROJECT Project Geldom
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PRONTO! Rapid HIV point-of-care testing in Victoria
PROJECT PRONTO! Rapid HIV point-of-care testing in Victoria
TAIPAN: HIV cascade surveillance
PROJECT TAIPAN: HIV cascade surveillance