INTRODUCTION Motherhood and HIV positive women in Australia collects together as a report three conference papers delivered between 1999 and 2001. This report is aimed at health service providers, policy makers and people living with HIV and AIDS. It details empirical information and informed discussion about the ways motherhood is understood amongst HIV positive women...

This report provides details about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians living with HIV who filled in and returned questionnaires as part of the HIV Futures II survey. The HIV Futures II survey was conducted by the Living with HIV research program at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University...

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.

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...