Alastair Lucas Endowment Fund
With lives at stake, there’s no time to waste. The Alastair Lucas Prize for Medical Research allows the highest calibre researchers to immediately start life-saving work.
With lives at stake, there’s no time to waste. The Alastair Lucas Prize for Medical Research allows the highest calibre researchers to immediately start life-saving work.
A blood-borne virus that attacks the liver causing both acute and chronic disease, hepatitis B affects two billion people.
Infecting more than three percent of the world’s population, it causes chronic liver disease, cirrhosis and liver cancer.
More than 30 years on since the emergence of HIV and yet it still remains one of the greatest challenges to human health.
Uses epidemiological and economic models to better inform public health decisions.
In Australia, HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) notifications are on the rise.
We are a member of the WHO’s Global Outbreak and Response Network (GOARN).
Accounts for the majority of hepatitis C infections and fatal drug overdoses.
Facilitate reductions in new HIV infections and improve the lives of people living with HIV in Australia and internationally.
A simple mosquito bite is all it takes for a young child in a poor tropical country to develop this life-threatening disease.
Hard to diagnose, quick to progress, potentially fatal.
HIV and other sexually transmitted infections notifications have risen in Australia for the past 10 years.
Every second, someone in the world is newly infected with tuberculosis (TB), a highly contagious air-borne disease.
