This report further develops certain issues raised in previous national research (Hillier et al, 1998) which documented the extent to which same sex attracted young people are denied support and information about their sexuality, and the verbal and physical abuse they experienced in many areas of their life in Australia.

Living Safer Sexual Lives was a three year Victorian Health Promotion Foundation funded action research project undertaken at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society (ARCSHS) at La Trobe University.

Summary This paper was originally written as a contribution to discussions about HIV treatments media occurring between the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations (AFAO) and the National Association of People Living with HIV and AIDS (NAPWA). The Executive of NAPWA tabled the paper at the HIV subcommittee of the Australian National Council on AIDS, Hepatitis...

Introduction This report is the second from the Living with HIV program that specifically addresses the status of women with HIV/AIDS in Australia. The report comes, as did its predecessor Standing on shifting sand, from a national survey of Australian PLWHA. The HIV Futures II survey is a core component of a broader program of...

The young people represented in this project were accessed through an advertising campaign in national magazines, via radio and the internet. A survey was available on a website and from the Centre for the Study of Sexually Transmissible Diseases. Surveys were also inserted in the gay and street press.