Leading health groups and national HIV bodies have come to the defence of Queensland’s peak LGBT health and wellbeing organisation, Healthy Communities, after Queensland Health Minister Lawrence Springborg announced plans to have its funding gutted.

R&B and disco singer Donna Summer passed away on Thursday at the age of 63 following cancer-related complications.

Siza Sibanda takes a look at how our LGBT brothers and sisters fare on the African Continent.

Australian authorities are being urged to put in place trials to test the efficacy of offering a HIV prevention pill after a panel of experts advising the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) backed the use of Truvada for people who are not HIV-positive but at high risk of contracting the virus.

A new national multi-media campaign launched today in Sydney by the National Association of People living with HIV/AIDS (NAPWA) urges people living with HIV to get up to date about the latest advances in HIV treatment, with new more effective and better tolerated treatments also capable of significantly reducing the risk of transmission to others.

SYDNEY: The annual Bobby Goldsmith Foundation (BGF) Auction raised $63,000 following a function at Woolloomooloo last week.

SYDNEY: The 2012 Sydney Candlelight Memorial to remember people lost to HIV/AIDS will take place on the afternoon of Sunday, May 20 this year to once again coincide with International Candlelight Memorial Day.

A new African-led initiative to be launched at a HIV conference in Sydney later today will ask African leaders to accept that people of diverse sexualities are engaging in anal sex and it is time to integrate messages promoting safe anal sex into HIV prevention programs.

A major conference on HIV, hepatitis and other related diseases in Sydney next week will hear from former NSW Health Minister John Della Bosca while a planned symposium will also look at the potential impacts of new laws to licence sex work in the state.

The Bobby Goldsmith Foundation have announced David Riddell as their new Chief Executive Officer.

The national Drama Downunder campaign enters a new phase this month. Wills Logue from Gay Men’s Health explains.

Homophobic bullying in schools and the risk of HIV cases in miners has been pushed into the spotlight in Western Australia this week.

ACON has reiterated its position to not support the implementation of male circumcision as a HIV prevention strategy in Australia, after a call last week by a number of local experts for public hospitals to perform infant circumcisions.

Some of the world’s leading HIV experts will be in Sydney next month for a major conference looking at how newly created pharmacologic agents known as microbicides could potentially change the face of HIV prevention, particularly in areas such as southern Africa with high rates of HIV/AIDS.

SYDNEY: ACON’s decision to close the Luncheon Club’s larder service and cut back its weekly meals has provoked strong reactions among clients, volunteers and long-time members, with many expressing anger and disenchantment over ACON’s management of the long-running service.