Getting people tested more often is crucial in reducing HIV infections. With rapid HIV testing recently approved for a trial in Australia, experts are now pushing for the approval of home-based HIV testing.

Melbourne’s La Trobe University has released a set of guidelines for healthcare and counselling professionals who work with same-sex couples and their children.

A coalition of people from the LGBTI community are calling for a change in the way policing is conducted in NSW.

Cancer Council NSW has announced funding for new research it says could save the lives of gay men at risk of anal cancer and HPV.

SYDNEY: As the days edge closer to the Sydney Mardi Gras parade, ACON will team up with police from a number of local area commands to take part in a high visibility operation that will focus on community safety and encourage LGBTI people to access support and report homophobic and transphobic violence.

The gloves are off as showbiz stars gather to roast Australia’s ‘Prince of Polysester’ Bob Downe in this hilarious ACON fundraiser. Lachlan Bennett reports.

Described as a “musical safari through the jungle of love” a special concert this Sunday in Darlinghurst headlined by New York-based musical director Lance Horne and featuring stars of cabaret and song will help raise money for ACON’s Anti-Violence Project.

Two groundbreaking new treatments for chronic hepatitis C (HCV) will now be subsidised through the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS), the Federal Government announced this week.

School boys are now receiving a vaccine that’s already protecting girls from cervical cancer.

The original hostess of ACON’s weekly charity event Bingay is returning to Sydney to host the event one final time.

Australia’s ‘Prince of Polyester’, Bob Downe, will have his life revealed and ridiculed at a celebrity roast event that will raise money for LGBTI health and wellbeing organisation, ACON.

Volunteers and others who helped ACON with last year’s Red Ribbon Appeal have been congratulated and thanked after raising approximately $90,000 across NSW during fundraising events for 2012 World AIDS Day.

As it prepares to host another heady and extravagant Fat Tuesday fundraiser to mark the traditional date of Mardi Gras, the Aurora Group has announced that close to $35,000 will be donated to a number of LGBTI groups and others as part of its Small Grants program for 2012-13.

The ever-popular Bingay at the Imperial Hotel will hold a special Christmas edition tonight with Tora Hymen to host her final show after presiding over the numbers at the camp and outrageous fundraiser for the past two years.

Rapid HIV testing, which promises results in under half-an-hour, is set to become a reality next year and beyond with the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) today approving the first rapid HIV test for use in Australia.