Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society La Trobe

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Australian Research Centre
in Sex, Health and Society
La Trobe University
Annual Report 2008
Staff and
Students
Australian Research Centre
in Sex, Health and Society
La Trobe University
Annual Report 2008
Australian Research Centre in Sex
Health and Society (ARCSHS)
La Trobe University
215 Franklin Street
Melbourne VIC Australia 3000
http://www.latrobe.edu.au/arcshs
e: [email protected]
t: +61 3 9285 5382
f: +61 3 9285 5220
Contents
Centre Overview
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Centre Overview
04
Director’s Report
06
Staff and Students
08
Research Programs
10
Living with HIV Program
The aims of the centre are to:
Committee
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Sex and Sexuality in Contemporary Australia
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Young People
undertake research into social, psychological and cultural aspects of human sexuality and sexual health
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Hepatitis Social Research Program
provide research leadership at state, national and international levels
Chair
Professor Hal Swerissen
Dean of Health Sciences
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International Program
22
Evaluations
23
Community Liaison And Education Unit (CLEU)
24
School Education
Terms of Reference
25
Gay and Lesbian Health Victoria
The Terms of Reference for the Scientific Advisory Committee are:
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Postgraduate Program
27
New ARCSHS Projects for 2008
28
Funding
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Committee Memberships
31
Publications
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Conference Presentations
The Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society (ARCSHS) is a multi-disciplinary social research centre within
La Trobe University’s Faculty of Health Sciences, Melbourne. Established in February 1993, the Centre is funded by La
Trobe University and research project grants from external agencies, including the Commonwealth Department of Health
and Ageing, the National Health and Medical Research Council, the Australian Research Council, the Victorian Health
Promotion Foundation, and the Department of Human Services.
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provide knowledge, skills and resources to assist other organisations in health promotion, service delivery and the
formulation of public policy.
ARCSHS Scientific Advisory Committee
(a) To provide a forum for raising and discussing issues which
may influence the direction of the study of sexually transmissible
diseases, both in the Centre and elsewhere.
(b) To provide advice to the Director, on request, regarding
directions in research, education and professional development,
and ways of establishing and maintaining closer links with the
community.
Angela McKinnon
Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing (DoHA)
Brian Vandenburg
Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (VicHealth)
Professor Christopher Fairley
Melbourne Sexual Health Centre
David Menadue
National Association of People Living with HIV/AIDS,
Australia (NAPWA)
Helen McNeil
Hepatitis C Victoria
Professor Jon de Wit
National Centre in HIV Social Research (NCHSR), UNSW
Professor Lenore Manderson
Monash University
Professor Marian Pitts
Associate Professor Ray Misson
University of Melbourne
Simon Donohoe
Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations (AFAO)
Steven O’Connor
Department of Education and Early Childhood Development
Vikki Sinnott
Department of Human Services (DHS)
Professor Vivian Lin
La Trobe University School of Public Health
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Director’s Report
2008 was another exciting year for ARCSHS, marking our sixteenth year as a centre.
We had a very successful year for funding. We heard that there would be continued funding from the Commonwealth
Department of Health and Ageing for three years starting July 2008. This funding supports our strategic research
program addressing four national strategies: those for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STIs and Indigenous Sexual Health.
We secured additional funds to support our work in blood
born viruses including a grant from Bristol-Myers Squibb
for a Needs Assessment of Hepatitis B and ARCSHS was
successful in the tender to conduct an evaluation of the
hepatitis C shared care initiative in Queensland. Our work
within the education system and with young people was
supported through a successful tender to create a resource
for parents in Western Australia about sex education in
schools. The project involves conducting research into what
parents want, followed by creation of the resources.
Our work with the gay, lesbian, transgender communities
continues and in 2008 we received funding to conduct
a project in conjunction with Beyond Blue, investigating
depression in the GLBTI Community.
2008 also saw a major expansion in our international
work, particularly in the Asia Pacific region. We are part
of a nine organisation consortium that seeks to improve
partnerships throughout the region, for ARCSHS particularly
with other social researchers and to work with community
organisations to achieve an evidence base on which to
plan service delivery and improve the lives of People Living
with HIV/AIDS. The consortium work began in July 2008
and will continue for three years. Another AusAID funded
project sits alongside the work of the consortium to conduct
research projects in South East Asia and the Pacific regions
in the areas of men who have sex with men, people living
with HIV/AIDS, and young people. In connection with
these projects, ARCSHS staff presented a workshop at
the Pan Pacific Gathering for HIV+ People in Auckland,
New Zealand. Most recently, Murray Couch and I were
awarded a UNAIDS contract to examine effective community
engagement in Pacific and Papua New Guinea. This extends
work that Murray has already begun working with the
Medical Research Institute in Port Moresby, PNG.
In other ARCSHS activities, a number of us including
Professor Gary Dowsett, Dr Jeffrey Grierson and Karalyn
McDonald attended the XVII International AIDS Conference
held in August in Mexico City, Mexico. Other conferences
where ARCSHS staff had a significant presence included the
3rd AOGIN (Asia-Oceania Research Organisation in Genital
Infection and Neoplasia) Conference in Seoul, South Korea.
The conference focused on cervical cancer, HPV, and HPV
vaccinations, and attracted a large number of delegates
from the whole region and beyond. My presentation focused
on people’s knowledge of and attitudes towards sex and
the HPV vaccination. A number of ARCSHS staff attended
and presented at the annual Australasian HIV Medicine
(ASHM) and Australian Sexual Health conferences in Perth
in September.
Jack Wallace and Stephen McNally made presentations
at the 6th Australasian Viral Hepatitis Conference, with
Jack presenting a key note plenary address: Putting the
Chronic into Hepatitis B. Congratulations to both and
to other ARCSHS staff for bringing hepatitis B onto the
national agenda.
In early May I was invited to make a presentation entitled
“The Role of Social Research in Australia’s HIV response”
to H.E. Mr Truong Vinh Trong, Deputy Prime Minister
of Vietnam, and other senior members of the Vietnam
Government, as part of their study visit to review Australia’s
response to HIV and drug use.
The book Holding Men: Kanyirninpa and the health of
Aboriginal Men by NHMRC Post Doctoral Fellow Brian
McCoy was launched in July. The launch was a big success
and was well attended by a large cross section of key
personnel. A simultaneous launch was held in Alice Springs.
The book has attracted attention from many agencies in
Australia and has been extremely well reviewed.
The Gay and Lesbian Health Victoria
(GLHV) Clearinghouse received
the HONCode award presented by
Health on the Net, a Swiss based
NGO backed by the World Health
Organization. The organisation
maintains a register of accredited
websites that offer health and medical
information.
The DVD Chlamydia - the secret is
out developed by Jenny Walsh and
Mandy Hudson of ARCSHS was
announced as a finalist in Global
Awards for Healthcare communication
in November 2008. Now in their
fourteenth year, The Global Awards
are recognised as the only awards
dedicated to excellence in health-care
communications on an international
basis. The Globals have achieved the
status of the world’s most coveted
honour in this field.
In November 2008 Lynne Hillier
won the ALSO Appreciation Award
for her contribution to the health and
wellbeing of same sex attracted young
people. Congratulations to Lynne on
her dedication to these communities
over the years.
Catherine Barrett’s work in the My
People project with Matrix Guild
and Vintage Men won the research
award at the Victorian AIDS Council/
Get Men’s Health Centre Annual
General Meeting.
Jason Ferris was acknowledged by
the judges of the EJG Pitman prize
awarded for the most outstanding talk
presented by a ‘young statistician’ at
an Australian Statistical Conference,
as a runner-up for the award.
Jen Johnson conducted a series of
Counsellor Accreditation Program
courses in Traralgon in September
2008. The participants were from
a diverse range of health and
community services in the Gippsland
region. All successfully completed the
course and achieved Department of
Human Services accreditation as pre
and post test counsellors, and a new
network of people interested in HIV
and Hep C issues in the Gippsland
region was formed.
Dr Daniel Marshall was the 2008
recipient of the Harold Mitchell
Foundation Post Doctoral Travel
Fellowship. He travelled to the
United States where he had meetings
with researchers at the Center for
Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS),
City University of New York, and
attended the GLBT ALMS Conference
hosted by CLAGS. He also presented
the paper “Interdisciplinarity, queer
youth research and cultural change:
a discussion of queer-affirmative
research design” at the Sexuality
and Health Midcontinent & Eastern
Region Joint Conference in Cleveland,
organised by the Society for the
Scientific Study of Sexuality. Daniel
finished up the trip with a meeting
with staff at the Hetrick-Martin
Institute (home of the Harvey Milk
High School), and attended the 6th
Annual Meeting of the Cultural Studies
Association at New York University.
Karalyn McDonald was the 2008
recipient of the Harold Mitchell
Foundation Post Graduate Travel
Fellowship and attended the XVII
International AIDS Conference in
Mexico City and presented the
poster “The impact of stigma on
HIV-positive mothers in Australia”.
This poster was based on interviews
conducted as part of Karalyn’s PhD
research. 34 HIV-positive women
had been interviewed in 2001
about their reproductive decision
making and the study explored their
experiences of stigma in a range
of contexts including healthcare
settings, familial and social networks.
delighted to record that Karalyn
McDonald was advised in October
of the successful completion of
her thesis concerning HIV positive
women, titled ‘”What about
motherhood?”: Women’s journeys
through HIV and AIDS.’ Debbie Ollis
received an ‘outstanding thesis’ award
from La Trobe University for her PhD
titled ‘Affirming diversity in health and
sexuality education from research to
policy to practice.’
Student grants were received by PhD
students Cuong la Manh, Maria Platt,
Amie O’Shea and Joni Meenagh.
I continue to serve as a member
of the Australian Research Council
College of Experts and was appointed
Chair of the Social, Behavioural and
Economic Panel at the start of 2008.
Gary Dowsett was been elected fellow
of the Academy of Social Sciences in
Australia (ASSA). This is a very great
honour and reflects Gary’s standing
in the academic community. Gary is
only the fourth person from La Trobe
University to receive the honour.
During the year we farewelled Sophie
Dutertre, Mandy Hudson, Robyne
Latham, Ben Ciantar, Christopher
Fox, Andrew Lavin, Maureen Reitze,
Felicity Marlowe and Janet So. We
welcomed: Jennifer Power, Duane
Duncan, Anthony Lyons, Jules Corboz,
Hai Do, Roz Ward, Rosy Calabro,
Travis Coleman and Naomi Jones.
We also welcomed back Professor
Anthony Smith who had served for
two years on a part time basis as the
Associate Dean for Research in the
Faculty of Health Sciences.
At the end of 2008 we had a total of
sixteen postgraduate PhD students.
They continue to play an important
part in the life of ARCSHS. I am
Staff and Students
Staff
Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health & Society, La Trobe University, has a multidisciplinary team of
researchers with qualifications and expertise in psychology, anthropology, sociology, public health, health
promotion, methodology, epidemiology, education, women’s health, gender studies, sexualities, cultural studies,
consumer advocacy and health policy.
Director and Professor
Marian Pitts
BA (Hons) Wales, PhD Wales, AFBPS, MAPS
Deputy Director and Professor
Gary Dowsett
BA QLD, DipEd QLD, PhD Macq
Anthony Smith
BSc (Hons) NSW, PhD ANU
Associate Professor and Director Gay and Lesbian
Health Victoria
Anne Mitchell
BA Melb, GradDipEd Melb, MA Melb
Adjunct Associate Professor
Julia Shelley
BA (Hons) Syd, MPH Syd, PhD Syd *†
Senior Research Fellows
Linda Bennett
BA (Hons) Griff, PhD QLD
Murray Couch
BA (Hons) Flin
Jeffrey Grierson
BPsych (Hons) James Cook, PhD LaTrobe
Lynne Hillier
TPTC CoburgSC, TLTC MBS, BBSc(Hons) LaTrobe,
PhD LaTrobe *
Michael Hurley
BA (Hons) Syd, GradDipEd SCVic, MLitt NE, PhD UTS *
Stephen McNally
BA Flin, MA Flin, PhD ANU
Sean Slavin
BA (Hons) NSW, PhD NSW
Jon Willis
BA (Hons) NSW, MLitt NE, PhD QLD *†
Adjunct Senior Research Fellow
Garrett Prestage
BA Syd, MA UNSW, PhD UNSW † (from the National
Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research,
University of New South Wales.)
Research Staff
Paul Agius
BA, GDipSoc LaTrobe, MSc (Applied Statistics)
Swinburne †
Marina Carman
BA (Hons) USyd MA UNSW
Duane Duncan
BA (Hons), MA Victoria University of Wellington, NZ †
Sophie Dutertre
LLB Universite de Rennes 1 (France), GradDipJourn
ESJ (France) *†
Sue Dyson
GradDipWomSt Rusden, PhD LaTrobe
Jason Ferris
BPsych (Hons) James Cook, GradCertBiostatistics,
MBioStats Melb
Mandy Hudson
Dip Primary Teaching Melbourne State College, Junior
Secondary Training Certificate Mercer House *
Penny Johnson
BPsych James Cook, Grad Dip LaTrobe, MA LaTrobe,
PhD Melb *†
Robyne Latham
Grad Dip Education Edith Cowan †
William Leonard
BSc (Hons) Melb, BA (Hons) Melb
Daniel Marshall
BA (Hons) Adel, PhD Melb
Karalyn McDonald
BA Monash, MA Monash, PhD LaTrobe *
Jennifer Power
Diploma(Youth Work) Sydney Institute of
Technology, BA(Hons) ANU, PhD ANU †
Rachel Thorpe
BSc (Hons) Adel, BHlthSci SSNT †
Henry von Doussa
BA South Australia, Honours Melb, MA Melb
Jack Wallace
MSocSci (IntDev) RMIT
Post Doctoral Fellows
Brian McCoy
BA Melb, BTh Melbourne College of Divinity,
Dip Crim Melb, Grad Cert Health Flinders,
PhD Melb
VicHealth Research Leader
Michael Flood
BA (Hons) ANU, PhD ANU †
Research Assistants
Nona Cameron
MA (Creative Arts) MIECAT *†
Ben Ciantar
BA USyd, Honours UNSW *†
Megan Clement
BA Melb *†
Thomas Clement *†
Jules Corboz
BSc ANU, BA (Hons) Melb *†
Samantha Croy
BA Singapore, Honours Melb *
Hai Do
BA, MA Institute for International Relations
(IIR), Hanoi, Vietnam *†
Christopher Fox
BPsych Ballarat, BA (Hons) Ballarat *†
Andrew Lavin
BSocSc Australian Catholic University *†
Anthony Lyons
BBSc(Hons) LaTrobe, PhD LaTrobe *†
Sylvia Petrony
BNursStud South Australia, GradDipSocSc South
Australia, MPH QLD *†
Maureen Reitze
BA (Hons) LaTrobe †
Richard Ryall
BAppSc(Hons) RMIT *
Community Liaison Officers
Anne Mitchell
Catherine Barrett
Regional Gerontic Nursing Certificate Queen
Elizabeth Geriatric Center, BAppSc VUT, Cert
Advanced Management Australian Catholic
University, PhD Melb †
Sue Dyson
Jen Johnson
BA Victoria University
Jenny Walsh
DipTeach(Prim) Wollongong, DipAdultEdTraining
Wollongong, Med Deakin *
Felicity Marlowe *†
Anne Mitchell
Sunil Patel
BA (Hons) FineArt Middlesex, GradDipInfoMgmnt
RMIT *
Roz Ward
BA (Hons) University of Reading UK, MA
University of Sussex UK *†
Administration Manager
Paul Toomey
DipAcctg NSW, DipMgmnt NSW, CIS *
Administrative Officers
Rosy Calabro †
Ben Ciantar
BA USyd, Honours UNSW †
Travis Coleman
BSocSc RMIT †
Melanie Hales
Naomi Jones
BAA (Hons) Monash *†
Jan Lovett †
Robert Myall
BA RMIT
Janet So
BBus Monash †
Nancy Yin
DipBusAdmin RMIT †
IT Support Officer
Maria Micalizzi *
Seminar Series Coordinator
Murray Couch
Postgraduate Coordinator
Lynne Hillier
* part-time † part-year
Research Program
Program for HIV Prevention
ARCSHS conducts a program of research that addresses strategic social aspects of HIV prevention. The research
program has two broad aims: to provide research evidence that strategically and directly informs HIV prevention
activities and policies; and to contribute to the broad body of knowledge around sexual and social practices that are
central to HIV prevention.
Much of the research activity at ARCSHS that can be found in this report contributes to the evidence base for HIV
prevention work, including research with people with HIV, research with young people, and research in sexualities. The
success of any HIV response depends to a large extent on the comprehensiveness and depth of the evidence-base that
informs it. This includes research activities that place populations and social practices within the contexts of daily lives,
social structures and social histories. The projects highlighted in this section are those with a primary focus on informing
specific prevention initiatives. While previous strategic HIV prevention research at ARCSHS has been conducted with
a diverse range of populations affected by HIV, the 2008 program represents a renewed and re-invigorated focus on
communities of gay and other homosexually active men. The research program builds on the strengths of the Australian
social research response with these communities and represents a growing sophistication in the focus on contexts,
structures and mechanisms of risk and prevention.
Mapping Gay Communities
Anthony Smith, Jeffrey Grierson, Marian Pitts,
Henry von Doussa
Pivotal, Peripheral or Positional: Understanding SOPVs
for Intervention
Jeffrey Grierson, Anthony Smith, Henry von Doussa
The overall aim of this project is to produce an exhaustive,
structural, relational map of Victorian gay communities and
to determine the reach, target populations, and appropriate
foci of novel opportunities for HIV/STI interventions in the
sites and contexts mapped.
This project utilises multiple methods to critically summarise
the current state of knowledge on sex on premises venues
(SOPVs). It provides an in-depth characterisation of the
patrons of SOPVs from the perspectives of the SOPV
industry, the time-space dynamics of venues, the patrons
of SOPVs, and the communities from which SOPV patrons
are drawn. It models patron flow between and within
venues and the impact interventions relating to SOPVs
for specific populations. The project consisted of four
elements: key informant interviews; space-time sampling;
patron interviews; and a community survey. In the patron
interview element, 219 respondents completed interviews
by telephone within 48 hours of their SOPV visit. Interviews
detailed the precise pattern of visits to SOPVs using time
sequences that plotted their trajectory through the venue.
Each sexual episode within the venue was further detailed
in terms of partner characteristics, sexual practices and
sequencing. The community survey element achieved
a sample of 287 men. Participants completed a brief
questionnaire about types of sexual partnerships, degree
of concurrency or seriality, health monitoring and testing
behaviours, perceptions of SOPVs and their clients including
characterisation of venues as being used by specific sub
categories of gay men (HIV negative, older, bisexual etc),
sources of HIV/STI information, and recreational drug use.
The study will develop a structural, relational map of the
institutions of gay communities in Victoria (including gay
and HIV community organisation, social groups, peer
organisations, sporting groups, business groups, gay
venues and religious organisations). The relationships
between these institutions will be established through
formal sociometric network measures that characterise the
connection between each pair of institutions in terms of
cross membership.
The study will characterise the institutions, the relationships
between institutions and the men that are affiliated with
each institution. The analyses will offer a detailed and
dynamic characterisation of the relationships that exist
between men, core gay organisations, core HIV/AIDS
organisations and peripheral gay organisations.
Risk, Motivations and HIV among High Risk Gay Men
(Pleasure and Sexual Health Study: High Risk Men Who Have
Sex With Men and Understandings of Risk)
Garrett Prestage, Michael Hurley, Marian Pitts,
Graham Brown (Curtin University)
This study aims to measure current attitudes toward HIV and
other STIs, and beliefs about relative risk among MSM known to
be at highest risk for transmission of these infections, including
both HIV-negative and HIV-positive men as well as recent
seroconverters, and a sub-sample of male-to-male sex workers.
The project will explore in detail these beliefs about relative
risk, both in terms of their understandings of the relative risk of
transmission and the relative priority this understanding of risk
takes with respect to other aspects of their lives such as sexual
needs, the desire for intimacy and connectedness, a sense of
adventure, personal relationships and broader issues of health
and well-being.
The project aims to recruit at least five hundred Victorian men
and an equivalent number from NSW, as well as about 200
Queensland men, and 100 men in each of South Australia
and Western Australia. In addition, about fifty in-depth
interviews with gay men who are at high risk of HIV infection or
transmission will be conducted. The qualitative and quantitative
arms of the study will include both HIV-positive and HIVnegative men. Participants will be recruited using a variety of
methods, both online and through community organisations,
social groups and venues. Recruitment will be focused on, but
not restricted to, men at highest risk of HIV transmission. There
will be some targeted recruitment of men engaged in male-tomale sex work and high risk behaviour, and men who have recently
seroconverted. Data collection will be completed during 2009.
Sexually Adventurous Gay Men’s Study
Garrett Prestage
The aims of this project are to monitor and document the work
of the Sexually Adventurous Men’s Projects of the Victorian
AIDS Council and of PLWHA Victoria, and to investigate the
contexts of risks associated with, and motivations for intensive
sex partying among homosexually active men in Melbourne. It
will investigate the social, sexual and demographic aspects of
sexually adventurous behaviour and its relationship to risk of
HIV and other sexually transmissible infections among these
men and the sexual networks in which they participate, to guide
a better understanding of this behaviour, promote education
initiatives, support and explore risk factors.
This project will document the process of community
engagement and community development, and resource
development, within sexually adventurous networks.
Self-administered questionnaires will be used to assess
demographic characteristics, sexual preferences, behaviour
and activities.
HIV Futures New Zealand 2
Jeffrey Grierson, Marian
Pitts, Rachel Thorpe, Tony
Hughes (New Zealand
AIDS Foundation), Peter
Saxton (New Zealand AIDS
Foundation), Eamonn
Smythe (New Zealand AIDS
Foundation), and Jonathan
Smith (Eventimento NZ Ltd),
Mark Thomas (Infectious
Disease Department at
Auckland City Hospital)
Living with HIV Program
HIV Futures 6
Jeffrey Grierson, Marian
Pitts, Jennifer Power,
Rachel Thorpe
ARCSHS conducts a program of research that addresses the lived experience of HIV positivity. The bulk of this research
program is conducted within Australia and New Zealand, but increasingly the program is working with other international
partners to strengthen research efforts with PLWHA (People Living with HIV/AIDS) in other constituencies.
This program of social research specifically aims to analyse the experience of PLWHA in relation to both their health and
social environment and to broaden understandings of the issues affecting PLWHA.
Our strategy for social research with HIV positive
populations rests on five key components:
•
partnerships at the local level: including academic,
community, professional and clinical
•
involvement of PLWHA in research design, conduct and
dissemination
•
skills development and sharing as key outcomes of the
research process
•
a reflexive and responsive research focus
•
a collective and shared responsibility to enhance the
well being of PLWHA.
Historically the majority of the research activity within this
program has been funded by the Australian Government
Department of Health and Aging through the HIV/AIDS
Program. With the reduction of funding from this source,
increasingly funding for research activity with HIV positive
populations has been sought from other sources.
Key projects in this research program are the HIV Futures
Surveys and the HIV Futures Qualitative Studies. 2008
saw the commencement of the 6th National Australian
HIV Futures study, the report from which will be launched
in 2009. In April 2008 the report from the 2nd HIV
Futures New Zealand survey was launched providing policy
makers, services providers and people with HIV up to date
information and analyses on the lived experience of HIV in
New Zealand. These projects remain the key evidentiary
reference for the development of services and policy for both
the Australian and New Zealand HIV positive populations.
We also conduct a range of research projects addressing
specific issues at the levels of individual experience, social
and collective experiences, organisational and structural
issues and policy issues.
In addition to dedicated research projects the Living with
HIV program undertakes an advocacy and advisory role
within ARCSHS to encourage consideration of issues
specific to HIV positive populations within other research
at the centre where appropriate. This may include the
incorporation of HIV status in project demographic data
and the analysis of findings by HIV status, or it may involve
more detailed consideration of the dynamics and contextual
complexities of HIV positivity within research populations.
The program also encourages and advises on ways in which
research can meaningfully address the principals of GIPA
(the greater involvement of people living with HIV/AIDS)
within research processes.
This national project is a
self-complete cross-sectional
survey of Australian
people living with HIV/
AIDS (PLWHA). The first
HIV Futures survey was
undertaken in 1997, with
a sample size of 925, the
second in 1999 with a
sample of 924, the third in
2001 with a sample size
of 894, the fourth in 2003
with a sample of 1059 and
the fifth in 2005 with a
sample of 970 respondents.
HIV Futures 6 has been in
the field in 2008 and has a
sample of over 1,000. The
survey aims are: to establish
and maintain baseline
data on social, economic,
cultural and clinically related
aspects of the experience
of living with HIV; and to
examine changes in, and
newly emerging aspects of,
the experience of living with
HIV. The HIV Futures Survey
collects information which is
used in the development and
provision of education and
support services for PLWHA.
This survey has provided
valuable insights into the
place of the new therapies
in the lives of PLWHA and
the social and personal
impact of HIV on the lives of
PLWHA. This study has added
significantly to the discourse
on living with HIV both
nationally and internationally
at both academic and
community levels.
MultiPoz: A Two State
Investigation of the
Experiences of People from
Culturally and Linguistically
Diverse Backgrounds Living
with HIV
Jeffrey Grierson, Karalyn
McDonald, Brian Price
(Infectious Diseases Unit,
The Alfred Hospital), Tadgh
McMahon (Multicultural
HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C
Service), Virginia Furner
(Albion Street Centre)
MulitPoz is a modified
version of the HIV Futures
Survey for culturally and
linguistically diverse [CALD]
people living with HIV/AIDS
[PLWHA] in Victoria and
NSW who, due to cultural
and linguistic circumstances,
have not had the opportunity
to participate in the National
HIV Futures Surveys. The
survey contains questions
on demographics, health,
treatments, community
and services, sex and
relationships, recreational
drug use, accommodation
and finances.
The HIV Futures New
Zealand Survey 2 is a
national survey of People
Living with HIV/AIDS
(PLWHA) in New Zealand.
It is a replication of a
similar study carried out
by the same researchers
in New Zealand in 2001.
The survey aims are: to
establish and maintain
baseline data on social,
economic, cultural and
clinically related aspects of
the experience of living with
HIV; and to examine changes
in, and newly emerging
aspects of, the experience
of living with HIV. The
survey contains questions
on demographics, health,
treatments, community
and services, sex and
relationships, recreational
drug use, accommodation
and finances. The first HIV
Futures New Zealand survey
in 2001 achieved a sample
that represented 25% of
the estimated population of
PLWHA in the country. The
second HIV Futures New
Zealand survey achieved a
sample of 261 participants
representing 21% of the HIV
positive population. This
study has provided core
analyses that have informed
New Zealand HIV services
within the community,
service, professional and
government sectors.
HIV Seroconversion Study
Garrett Prestage, Sean
Slavin, Graham Brown
(Curtin University)
This study aims to identify
demographic, behavioural,
social, situational, and
other characteristics
in gay men who newly
acquire HIV infection. An
understanding of factors
which are associated with
HIV infection will lead
to improved preventive
education both at a level of
individual counselling and
community-wide strategies.
The project aims to recruit
at least one hundred
recently seroconverted
men across Australia into
the survey, which uses a
self-administered online
questionnaire. In addition,
about twenty in-depth
interviews with gay men
who have recently acquired
HIV infection will be
conducted. Participants
will be recruited through
community organisation
programs servicing men who
have recently seroconverted,
and through clinic sites with
a high caseload of recent
HIV seroconverters. Data
collection will be ongoing
during 2009.
The Primary Prevention of Violence Against Women
Michael Flood (Research Fellow Victorian Health
Promotion Foundation VicHealth)
Sex and Sexuality
in Contemporary Australia
Australian Longitudinal Study of
Health and Relationships
Anthony Smith, Marian Pitts, Julia
Shelley, Juliet Richters (University
of New South Wales), Judy Simpson
(The University of Sydney),
Jason Ferris
This NHMRC funded project was
established in 2003. Its objective
is to document the natural history
of sexual and reproductive health in
the Australian population. Evidence
provided from this study will allow
for more effective sexual health
interventions and will enable us to
understand the links between ‘risk
events’ and health outcomes.
In 2005 the first wave of data was
collected and the fifth and final
wave of data collection will occur
in 2009/10. It is foreseen that the
results of this ground-breaking study
will not only provide the foundations
for future research but be used to
inform government policies, health
professionals, and the Australian
public as a whole. Five journal
articles were submitted from the
study in 2008 and 11 conference
presentations were made.
Men, Sexuality and Health: New
Issues, New Directions
Gary Dowsett (Victorian Health
Promotion Foundation Senior
Research Fellowship, 2005-2010)
This fourth year of the Fellowship
included further work on the ‘Men
and Relationship Study’ (MARS),
funded by a La Trobe University
Faculty Research Grant awarded in
2006. Research Assistant Andrew
Lavin left the project to take up
doctoral studies and Duane Duncan
started as Research Officer mid year
to assist in that study and future
research. Ben Ciantar, Research
Assistant on the sub-study of men’s
health in the popular press, also
moved to a new job, while developing
papers from that sub-study continued
through the year. Monitoring
the growing literature on male
circumcision and HIV prevention
continued with Joni Meenagh as
Research Assistant. Editorial work
continued for four international and
two Australian journals focusing on
sexuality and health, and on the
book series, ‘Sexuality, Culture and
Health’, published by Routledge/
Taylor and Francis, UK. During
2008, the second paper from a
collaborative project on gay men,
the internet and ‘bareback’ sex,
co-authored with colleagues at
Columbia University, New York,
was published in Sexualities, while
another was accepted for 2009
The project focuses on primary prevention of men’s violence
against women. The project commenced in August 2008.
This research focuses on the effective development of
primary prevention efforts, conducting an ongoing review of
the evidence related to violence against women and models
of good practice to reduce its prevalence.
publication by Culture, Health and
Sexuality, and yet another is under
review. Planning for a new followup project on men’s internet use in
Australia is underway. A new paper
of the role of gay community and HIV
prevention, co-authored with another
colleague from Columbia University
was published in Culture, Sexuality
and Health this year, and a second
paper on current HIV prevention
dilemmas among gay men has been
accepted for a special issue of Social
Theory and Health to be published
in 2009. Finally, a chapter on HIV/
AIDS for a new book on Sexual Rights
and Moral Panics is in press with
New York University Press, due for
release in early 2009. A paper on
bisexual/bicurious men attracted a
large audience at ‘Quench-a weekend
of queer thinking’, part of the annual
South Australian ‘Feast Festival’.
Mid year saw an invited presentation
on masculinity theory at the 34th
Annual Meeting of the International
Academy of Sex Research in Leuven,
Belguim, and a panel presentation
initiating a new global ‘Gender,
Sexuality and HIV Research Network’
at the XVII International AIDS
Conference in Mexico City in August.
The year ended with Professor
Dowsett’s election to the Academy
of the Social Sciences for having
achieved distinction in his field and
with his induction to the Academy at
its Annual Symposium in Canberra
in November.
The project comprises a number of interwoven research
efforts. One of the most significant components of the
research program is an examination and extension of
violence prevention education in Victorian schools. Michael
Flood has assisted in mapping existing efforts across
Australia, assessed scholarship in the field and the extent
to which contemporary programs match ‘best practice’.
Another significant component is assisting five community
organisations to develop evaluation plans to assess the
workings and impact of their violence prevention efforts,
as part of the second phase of VicHealth’s program
Respect, Responsibility and Equality: Preventing Violence
Against Women.
Dr Flood also has given technical advice regarding the
design of a national survey of community attitudes towards
violence against women, undertaken by the Australian
Institute of Criminology in collaboration with VicHealth
and ARCSHS. Finally, Dr Flood has written sections of a
national framework for sexual violence prevention being
developed on behalf of the National Association of Services
Against Sexual Violence (NASASV). This work builds on
previous work completed on behalf of VicHealth, and in
particular Flood’s contribution to Preventing Violence
Before It Occurs: A framework and background paper
to guide the primary prevention of violence against
women in Victoria. This evidence-based framework for the
primary prevention of violence against women has guided
prevention efforts among both the Victorian Government
and community organisations.
Developing, Sustaining and Evaluating Health Programs for
Aboriginal Men
Brian F McCoy (NHMRC Postdoctoral Fellow Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander Health)
This project began in March 2006. It is located in the
Kutjungka region of the south-east Kimberley where
there are currently three desert and remote communities:
Wirrmanu (formerly Balgo Mission), Mulan and Kururrungku.
There are about 1,000 people living in the region. The
researcher works closely with the Palyalatju Maparnpa
Health Committee who employs a male health coordinator.
The desire to work with the men of the region in relation to
the provision of health programs built on the researcher’s
long contact with the desert people of this region and
his PhD (2001-04) which was published as: Holding
Men: Kanyirninpa and the health of Aboriginal men in
2008 (Aboriginal Studies Press). While the poor health of
Aboriginal people is well known, little is understood about
men’s health and the delivery of programs to address their
health and wellbeing (health being understood in a broad
and wholistic sense).
The project has sought to engage with the men, identify
programs they wished to develop and explore ways to
sustain and evaluate them. A number of programs were
identified: ceremonial health (the provision of health during
male ceremonial times, usually in the summer), music
(developing and producing recordings), sport (where men,
particularly young men, are well represented), maparn (the
work of traditional male healers), clinic care (the provision
of services from each community clinic) and a designated
‘men’s place/space’. While a number of strengths in the
programs have been identified, what has become more
apparent are some of the blockages and obstacles to
programs being developed and sustained. These blockages
are related to the delivery of services (especially the high
turn-over of staff), but also the various ways in which
desert men engage the services that are offered. It is hoped
that in the field trips of 2009 these difficulties will be shared
and discussed with the men before a final community report
is developed.
Helicopter, Brian and Brandy
Sex and Sexuality
in Contemporary Australia
Parents and Sex Education: Western Australian Parents as
Sexuality Educators with their Children
Sue Dyson, Lizzie Smith
This research is part of a larger project funded by the
WA Department of Health. This part of the project was
completed in 2008. Part two of the project, which is
underway, is to develop a resource for parents, based on
the findings of the research. Four consultations were carried
out with 31 parents of 77 children aged between 2 months
and 22 years. Two of these were in rural and two in urban
areas. The aims of the research were to consult with parents
about their role as sex educators of their children; to identify
the ways in which parents interact with their children’s
school sex education programs; and to develop a report that
would inform the development of sex education resources for
parents, and a report to government.
Few fathers attended the consultations, and women
identified their partner or husband’s unwillingness to talk
about sex with their children as an issue. The mothers
reported that boys tend to withdraw from communication
with them around the age of 10 to 12 years, and in the
absence of communication with their father, they tend to
turn to their peers for information. The literature suggests
they tend to get (poor) information from their peers, so it
appears that many boys grow up lacking paternal guidance.
Most participants supported sexual health education in
school, but had some had reservations. There appears to be
a lack of communication between school and parents about
sexuality education, which leads some, who fear that school
programs might conflict with family values, to be anxious
about school programs. Two conclusions of the research
are that parents need of support in their role as sexuality
educators with their children and schools need to engage
with parents concerning sexuality education.
The ART of Making Babies: How Human Embryo Research
and Assisted Reproduction are Regulated in Australia and
New Zealand
Marian Pitts, Kerry Petersen (Department of Law and
Management at La Trobe University), Gordon Baker
(University of Melbourne)
Scientific breakthroughs in the past twenty five years have
made it possible for people to receive assistance to conceive
when they would otherwise remain childless.
This project examines the multiple ways in which assisted
reproductive technology (ART) and human embryo research
are controlled and regulated in the states and territories
of Australia and in New Zealand. Through an analysis of
the regulatory frameworks and through interviews with
key policy makers and regulators we will examine the
justifications for involving the law and the effects that
differing regulatory frameworks have on service delivery
and research. Through interviews with clinical providers,
researchers, and potential beneficiaries of infertility services
we will clarify how clinical practice, service delivery,
and medical research are influenced by the regulatory
frameworks operating in each state, territory and nation.
Young People
Secondary Students and Sexual Health 2008
Anthony Smith, Marian Pitts, Anne Mitchell, Paul Agius,
Catherine Barrett, Nona Cameron
POSH Interviews
Lynne Hillier (Victorian Health Promotion Foundation,
Public Health Fellowship - 2006 – 2011)
The aims of this project are:
This longitudinal study will gather the experiences of 30
same sex attracted young people, aged 16 - 21 years
at regular intervals over two years. The study will focus
particularly on critical events in these young people’s lives
and the resources they call upon (internal and external) in
dealing with them. Foucault’s theories on the ethics of care
of the self are used to frame the analysis of these data.
•
To survey the knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and
practices of year 10 and 12 students in relation to
sexual health, including knowledge of HIV, sexually
transmitted diseases, and blood borne viruses
•
To compare the results of 2008 with those of the
1992, 1997 and 2002 studies to provide evidence
of change in the knowledge, the attitudes, beliefs,
and practices
•
To obtain the above information to enable the
development of appropriate interventions to enhance
the sexual health and well-being of young people
To do this, a random sample of Australian secondary
schools was taken. The sample included State, Catholic and
Independent schools. Students completed a questionnaire
dealing with their knowledge of HIV, sexually transmissible
infections and viral hepatitis. They also provided information
on the sexual behaviour, if any, their use of alcohol and
other drugs, and their use of, and trust in, a range of sources
of advice about sexual health.
Aims:
1. to document positive and negative change in same sex
attracted young people’s social networks and supports,
the complex dynamics of that change, implications of
that change for mental and physical health and young
people’s responses to the change
2. to document the resources (internal and external) that
young people access when these critical life events occur
3. to document young people’s personal sexual ethics and
care for self and to adapt/construct/extend theoretical
models which can explain the important factors which
impact on same sex attracted young people moving
successfully and safely through adolescence.
Young People
ARCSHS’ Hepatitis Social Research Program promotes a collaborative, public
health approach to hepatitis research, and policy development. The Hepatitis Social
Research program continues to work towards positioning hepatitis C as a chronic
disease which is accepted and well understood by all people throughout Australia.
Over the past year the research team has included Dr Stephen McNally, Jack Wallace,
Dr Penny Johnson, Sophie Dutertre and Robyne Latham.
Beyond Homophobia
Daniel Marshall, Lynne Hillier, Anne Mitchell
This research identifies effective strategies for reforming
services for young people in Victoria in order to make
them more inclusive of gender and sexual diversity.
Data have been collected through an online survey, key
informant interviewing, oral histories and focus groups with
young people.
The online survey targeted workers providing services
to young people in Victoria. Respondents to the survey
answered questions about their professional capacity to
address the needs of same sex attracted and transgender
young people (SSATY) and to combat homophobia.
Respondents also provided information about the key
enabling and disabling factors they experience in their efforts
to deliver inclusive services.
Key informant interviews targeted workers with expertise
in the field of SSATY service delivery over the last decade.
These interviews were supplemented by a small number
of oral histories with activists organising around gay and
lesbian youth issues in Victoria in the 1970s and 1980s.
The key informant and oral history interviews provide
information about effective service reform strategies while
also providing an historical context for the analysis of the
collected survey data.
Data were also collected through focus group discussions
held with SSATY and Gay/Straight Alliance Groups.
Participants were asked to share their views on what they
want from services, how they would run things differently
and what positive roles services could play in the cultural
practices queer young people develop in order to enjoy life.
The results of this research will inform the development of a
policy blueprint that will be disseminated and implemented
in partnership with Gay and Lesbian Health Victoria, the
Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission
and the Ministerial Advisory Committee on Gay, Lesbian,
Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Health.
Muslim Youth, Social Connectedness, Health and
Education in Victoria
Linda Bennett (Victorian Health Promotion Foundation,
Public Health Fellowship - 2005 – 2010)
This is a five year fellowship now in its final stages and is
focused on analysis of data collected in Islamic schools,
through Islamic youth groups and through interventions
designed to assist teachers in Islamic schools. Analysis is
now focused on three key issues identified in the research,
which are: the need for improved access to religiously
appropriate sex education for Muslim youth; strategies
for addressing social alienation by reducing the impact
of Islamophobia on Muslim youth; and the mental health
needs of Muslim youth and the mismatch between those
needs and existing services.
A cross cultural analysis of the experiences of Muslim
students in Australian and Indonesian schools has also
been undertaken to reveal surprising similarities in the
role models, life aspirations and values of students in both
countries despite their different access to material wealth
and career opportunities.
Our vision is to broaden existing knowledge about what it
is like to live with chronic viral hepatitis for the broad range
of people infected, and to help normalise hepatitis as a
public health issue. The program over the past 12 months
has consolidated its position as the leading research base in
Australia investigating the barriers to treatment for hepatitis
C, and leads the world in chronic hepatitis B social research.
One activity of the program is supporting agencies through
undertaking short term consultancies. One major activity
during the year has been data gathering for an evaluation of
the Queensland Health Hepatitis C Shared Care Program.
This program seeks to increase the number of people
accessing treatment through resourcing hepatology nurses
throughout Queensland.
2008 was an important year for us, particularly in
broadening our hepatitis B related social research. The year
began with the launch of the National Hepatitis B Needs
Assessment 2007, the first such research of its kind. The
study calls for the development of a comprehensive strategic
response to chronic hepatitis B by the national government
as well as the state and territory governments. The research
shows the Australian health care system response to
hepatitis B has relied on the immunisation program, but
many people with chronic hepatitis B need information
that helps them live with the virus, and to reduce long term
health care costs.
The Hepatitis Social Research Program presented at several
conferences during 2008 including
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The International Hepatitis C Conference held in Derby
UK in May 2008 presenting on some needle and
syringe program findings of Regulating Hepatitis C:
Rights and Duties.
Invited plenary presentation at the Australasian Viral
Hepatitis Conference in Brisbane on the findings of the
National Hepatitis B Needs Assessment 2007
Jack Wallace giving plenary
presentation at Australian Viral
Hepatitis Conference Brisbane,
October
Regulating Hepatitis C: Rights and Duties
Marian Pitts, Anthony Smith, Meredith Temple-Smith
(University of Melbourne), Ian Malkin, (University of
Melbourne), Stephen McNally, and Jack Wallace
One major hepatitis C related activity undertaken by the
ARCSHS program is a five year study Regulating Hepatitis C:
Rights and Duties, funded by the Australian Health Ministers
Advisory Council.
Australian governments, at the local, state/territory and
national level have a range of regulations which seek to limit
the transmission of hepatitis C. These regulations relate
to criminal and civil law, health acts, standards of care,
codes of conduct and legal agreements between government
and professional bodies. The study recognises the priority
populations detailed in the National Hepatitis C Strategy
by its focus on needle and syringe programs and within
correctional settings.
An Australia-wide audit has been conducted of all
regulations, guidelines and codes of practice governing
hepatitis C risk practices associated with hepatitis C
transmission within needle and syringe programs and
prisons. We are now analysing the data to identify
where regulations are missing and where conflicts and
inconsistencies exist between different regulations.
During 2008 we completed interviews with key informants
in each Australian state and territory and at a national level
to gain their perspectives on regulatory barriers to hepatitis
C prevention activity, and document how best practice can
be achieved.
Recognising and Responding to Hepatitis C in Indigenous
Communities in Victoria
Stephen McNally, Meredith Temple-Smith (University
of Melbourne) Jacqui Richmond (St Vincent Hospital),
Jill Gallagher (VACCHO), Priscilla Pyett (VACCHO and
University of Melbourne), Peter Waples-Crowe (VACCHO)
and Robyne Latham
This Victorian based study was undertaken in collaboration
with the Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health
Organisation (VACCHO). This qualitative research addresses
a critical gap in knowledge about access to hepatitis C
treatment services for Indigenous people in Victoria. It is the
first study to provide evidence about accessing treatment
and care for Indigenous people in Australia.
The aims of the study are to identify how health service
providers within the Indigenous health sector respond to
clients with hepatitis C; to identify barriers and challenges
associated with anti-viral treatment specific to Indigenous
communities and; to identify how mainstream health
services respond to health needs for Indigenous people
with hepatitis C. The study also documents programs
and resources on hepatitis C for Indigenous people across
Australia. Feedback to partners and participants will take
place in 2009. The report will be launched in 2009.
Connecting the Clinic to the Community: The Role
of GPs and People with Chronic Hepatitis B
Jack Wallace, Stephen McNally and Jacqui
Richmond (St Vincent Hospital)
General practitioners are often the first health
professional consulted by people with chronic
hepatitis B. They are central in managing hepatitis
B including prevention, diagnosis, pre- and posttest information provision at the time of diagnosis,
monitoring of disease progression, provision of
psychosocial support and referral to other services
where necessary. Management and care of people
with chronic hepatitis B requires not only an
understanding of the complications associated with
chronic hepatitis B infection, accurate interpretation
of diagnostic tests and an awareness of current
antiviral therapy but also how to best provide
services in a culturally appropriate manner.
This qualitative study will focus on general
practitioners with a high case-load of patients with
chronic hepatitis B to:
•
identify barriers and challenges to the
effective diagnosis, management and
monitoring of people with hepatitis B by
general practitioners
•
determine where the response to hepatitis
B from the perspective of the general
practitioners can be strengthened, and
ascertain how this could occur
•
develop insight in how general practitioners
address and are challenged by cultural and
linguistic diversity
•
Project to Develop a Short Course in Advanced Sexuality Theory
and Methodology in Developing Countries
Gary Dowsett and Sean Slavin (collaboration with the
International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture
and Society)
2008 saw the project team begin the work of developing the
course curriculum. This was done with the assistance and advice of
colleagues on our international Curriculum Working Group. We met
for three days in Perth in March and this highly successful gathering
saw us finalise our course objectives, course content and begin the
process of curriculum development.
Throughout the year the project team has been working to develop
some modules while project partners internationally have been
commissioned to produce others. By late 2008 many of the draft
modules were ready and the quality of the ideas contained in them
is outstanding. In early 2009 modules were sent out for review
and the Curriculum Working Group will meet again soon in Hanoi
to finalise the entire course. Also in 2008, Julienne Corboz joined
the project team and has taken on the role of managing the website
www.sexualitystudies.net. She has completed literature reviews,
updated information in the database and started a highly engaging
blog that regularly discusses sexuality issues.
2008 also saw the team step up efforts to link the project with our
international partner organisation, the International Association for
the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society (IASSCS). We envisage
being able to deliver IASSCS the complete course in late 2009.
Plans for piloting the course in Kenya and Indonesia are well
advanced and will occur in the middle of 2009.
HIV Consortium - Supporting HIV Social Research
in Asia and the Pacific
Marian Pitts, Stephen McNally, Hai Do
ARCSHS is one of nine Australian organisations which
form the AusAID funded Australian HIV Consortium.
Over the next three years the HIV Consortium is
partnering with individuals and institutions throughout
Asia and the Pacific to help strengthen country
responses to HIV/AIDS. The Consortium covers three
broad areas: research, community development and
health care. ARCSHS’ social research program is
working to support and enhance existing research
practices in all areas of HIV research. During 2008
ARCSHS has worked to build partnerships with
individuals and institutions in Cambodia, China,
Indonesia, the Pacific, and Vietnam.
The aim is to run a range of complementary activities
over the next three years. The activities will differ
for each country and will continue to be developed
in consultation with country partners. In addition to
country activities, and in partnership with the National
Centre in HIV Social Research, ARCSHS initiated the
Regional Network of Social Researchers, with the aim
to build a network of social researchers throughout
Asia and the Pacific. This network will increase
dialogue, opportunities and research partnerships
between social researchers throughout the region.
Curriculum Working Group, March 2008
identify where support is or could be provided
to general practitioners to effectively respond
to hepatitis B
Ambivalent Adolescents in Indonesia
Linda Bennett
Ambivalent Adolescents in Indonesia is an ARC Discovery
grant now in its fourth year. Ethnographic research into
the lives of Indonesian youth has been conducted in seven
sites across Indonesia and a national survey has been
conducted across nine regions with a total of 3,565 young
peopled aged between 16 and 20. The national survey
is proving a useful tool for the analysis of young people’s
aspirations, career and educational aims, and ideas of the
good life, and the correlations of these aspirations with
other aspects of their lives (e.g. residence, class, type of
schooling).
The diversity of young people’s experiences is perhaps
the most salient finding of the study. The research has
indicated that in Indonesia a revitalized Islam is important
for many young people. However, there also appears to
be a national “paranoia”, even among young people, and
a moral panic over pergaulan bebas (free socializing) and
sexuality in general. Ironically, this generalized panic is
rarely seen by young people to apply to them personally
- it is always “other” young people who embody this
problem. Young people themselves experience a much
wider array of problems, which extend from parental
and family conflict and problems with friends and boy/
girl friends to worries about finance and the future.
A strong desire among Indonesian youth to access
more comprehensive information about sexuality and
reproductive health than they currently do via mass media
and the internet is another key finding from the study.
Meeting at the Southern Institute of Social Sciences, HCMC, Vietnam
December 2008
Student Social Networks: Size, Composition and Stability
Anthony Smith, Marian Pitts, Jeffrey Grierson, Vernon Solomon
(University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa), Professor Graham
Lindegger (University of KwaZulu Natal), Prof Kevin Durrheim
(University of KwaZulu Natal)
This project arises from an emerging collaborative relationship
between ARCSHS and researchers at the Pietermaritzburg campus
of the University of KwaZulu Natal. The project represents a
convergence of academic and social justice concerns of the two
groups of researchers. The project consists of on campus survey
of the size and structure of students’ social networks, paying
particular attention to demographic mixing characteristics (e.g.
race, gender, age) and health seeking practices. The project
addresses the health seeking behaviour, including sexual health of a
large population of sexually active young adults in a setting that has
a high background HIV prevalence rate. The project provides key
baseline data on this population that has hitherto been unavailable.
The project will provide direct benefit to the planning and provision
of sexual health services including HIV testing and HIV treatment
and support for this population. In 2008 data collection was
completed. 589 students completed a 50 item anonymous
intranet based survey including: demographics (age, gender, racial
identification, area of residence); social network characteristics
(size, age, gender and racial composition); health status and health
seeking. The sample was 57% female, aged 18-54 (mean = 23,
median =22), and 36% lived on campus. Racially, 61% reported
they were Black, 21% White, 12% Indian and 6% mixed race
or other. 51% had used campus health services in the previous
year. Participants were most likely to report their primary source of
health information to be: their regular doctor (40%), media (59%),
parents (50%) or friends (49%).
Male to Male Sex in the Asia Pacific Region: Meanings and
Practices
Jeffrey Grierson (Charles La Trobe Fellowship 2008-2011
Project Men – An Internet Study
English Language
Marian Pitts, Anthony Smith, Jeffrey Grierson, Stephen
McNally, Murray Couch, Geoffrey Smith
This project represents a strategic investigation of the
contextualising social dynamics of male to male sexual
practice in a range of international settings in the Asia
Pacific region. The project will provide direction for the
emerging prevention activity with these populations.
Indonesian Language
Murray Couch, Marian Pitts, Anthony Smith, Jeffrey
Grierson, Stephen McNally, Geoffrey Smith, Dédé Oetomo
(GAYa NUSANTARA Foundation)
The research questions for this project are: what are the
range and settings of male to male sexual practices that are
relevant for HIV prevention? what is the reach and targets
of current HIV prevention strategies in these settings? how
can organisations and agencies, local and international, best
deliver HIV prevention to MSM?
Objectives
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to build the evidence base that informs HIV prevention
by mapping the behavioural and social practices of MSM
•
to identify current HIV prevention capacity and reach
with MSM
•
to enhance research capacity around MSM, locally and
internationally
•
to contribute to workforce development and form
partnerships to better deliver HIV prevention for MSM
This fellowship commenced July 2008 and runs for three
years. Activity to date has focussed on project development,
consultation and identification of project partners and
priority settings.
Targeted HIV Social Research Program
Marian Pitts, Murray Couch, Sylvia Petrony
This research program is formed from an agreement
between AusAID and ARCSHS to support research
activities in Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and the
Pacific. The program aims to the meet the following
objectives: build evidence on the social impact of HIV
on marginalised and hard-to-reach populations; build an
evidence base on optimal contexts for HIV prevention;
encourage critical assessment of the social aspects of the
HIV epidemic in each country and region; develop the
skills of HIV social researchers throughout the region;
provide a clear indication of where, when and how to
place interventions to best reach vulnerable groups;
identify interventions that are most appropriate for
specific populations; identify optimal modes of delivery
of interventions within the constraints of resource poor
settings and in remote communities; provide effective
knowledge transfer to NGOs, faith based organisation,
health professionals, and governments; and translate
research outcomes into possibilities for policy and
program development.
Thai Language
Jeffrey Grierson Marian Pitts, Anthony Smith, Stephen
McNally, Murray Couch, Geoffrey Smith
Vietnamese Language
Stephen McNally, Marian Pitts, Anthony Smith, Jeffrey
Grierson, Murray Couch, Geoffrey Smith, Khuat Thu
Hong (Institute for Social Development Studies), Duong
Le Bach (Institute for Social Development Studies)
This study aims; to describe and understand experiences
of male-to-male sexual practices and to understand the
meanings attached to experiences of male-to-male sex in
the Asia Pacific Region; to provide data and analyses that
will support targeted HIV prevention and sexual health
promotion initiatives for MSM in the Asia Pacific region; and
to provide baseline data for focussed qualitative research
with communities of MSM in the Asia Pacific Region
The project is an internet based survey. This methodology
allows for participant anonymity and confidentiality and
allows for access from a broad range of MSM, including
those not regularly in contact with the usual data collection
sites for research with MSM. Specifically the project will
collect detailed data on: relationships; sexual practice;
sexual health: and social networks
It is anticipated that the quality of the data will improve
the relevance of research on MSM, especially with respect
to the knowledge it will provide about the health and
general wellbeing of this very diverse population, and of
specific psychosocial experiences enhancing or weakening
that wellbeing. The research will directly support efforts
in health promotion for MSM in the region, particularly in
settings where current evidence is limited in scope, detail,
appropriateness or population diversity. In 2008 the English
language version of the study was in the data collection
phase and has recruited in excess of 1,000 men. The three
other language versions have been developed and will begin
data collection in early 2009.
Evaluations
Evaluation of the Queensland Hepatitis C
Shared Care Program
Stephen McNally, Jack Wallace,
Penny Johnson
Queensland Health introduced a share
care initiative in 2006 in an attempt
to increase treatment for people with
hepatitis C in Queensland. This state-wide
initiative has been the largest shared care
program in Australia and is expected to
influence how shared care is developed
and supported in the future throughout
Australia. The shared care model is
patient focused and a significant goal
of the program is to reach patients who
do not have easy access to treatment
centres, to get them onto treatment, and
have them supported by their local health
professional, who in turn are supported by
the CNC and a tertiary hospital.
The evaluation involves all ten
participating hospitals throughout
Queensland. Interviews have been
conducted with clinical nurse consultants,
hepatologists, specialists, psychologists,
and other allied health workers. The
evaluation will include a patient
questionnaire and telephone interviews
with patients and General Practitioners
involved in the share care program.
Community Liaison
and Education Unit (CLEU)
Fair Game: A Respect and Responsibility
Project in Community Football Clubs
Sue Dyson
The goals of the project are to work with
one AFL Victoria community football
league, and its member clubs, to foster
an environment that is safe and inclusive
for women and girls and to evaluate this
intervention against another comparable
league. ARCSHS role in the project is to
carry out the evaluation.
A kit was developed in partnership
between the AFL and ARCSHS, to assist
community football clubs address issues
of women’s safety and inclusion. The kit
contains an audit to assist clubs identify
their strengths and weaknesses, and
tools for setting goals for change, as well
as posters and brochures containing
information about the prevention of
violence against women for use in
the clubs.
Prior to commencement of the
intervention, an online survey was
conducted to establish baseline data
about current activities in clubs, and
attitudes towards women. In October the
intervention was piloted in three clubs,
and it will be progressively rolled out in
a further thirty clubs in the first quarter
of 2009. The evaluation will consist of
qualitative and quantitative methods,
and will seek to identify measurable
and identifiable changes in the overall
environment that lead to women feeling
safer and being more actively engaged in
all levels of the club.
Evaluation of Xtribe: A Sex and Health
Positive Website for Men Who Have Sex
With Men
Lynne Hillier and Kylie Johnson (VAC)
The project evaluated is a web-based
Internet site for men who have sex with
men, including gay attached, HIV positive
and negative men and those who use
the Internet to find partners for sex. The
project aims to provide a website which
is relevant and accessible, which provides
information on a spectrum of safe sex
strategies and other sexual health issues
as well as providing safe spaces for the
discussion of sensitive issues such as
the pros and cons of testing and new
diagnosis. The project will be sex positive,
interactive and fun.
The evaluation charted the development
of the website, its effectiveness in
achieving its aims and the learning’s from
this. Report is complete.
Internet Chat Room STI Awareness,
Screening and Testing Outcomes
Lynne Hillier, Brian Price and
Gabriele Bennett (The Alfred)
This project is an evaluation of a chat
room intervention with men who have sex
with men to increase their testing for, and
awareness of, Chlamydia and other STIs.
Two health educators will have a personal
profile within the chat room identifying
them as ‘Health Educators’. There will be
a particular focus of the education strategy
on STIs, HIV transmission and referral for
testing. The Health Educators will respond
in a private conversation to information
requests and any individual deemed at
risk for STIs will be approached to be
part of the two phase study. Phase One
involves filling out a questionnaire about
sexual risk taking, previous sexual
health history and testing along
with basic demographic details.
Phase Two involves a second
questionnaire three months post
the initial discussion. This will
investigate sexual risk taking over
the period, any follow up and any
STI testing they undertook along
with any reasons for not testing
or barriers to accessing testing.
All data has been collected.
Evaluating the ‘value adding’ to
the “What is this hep C thing?”
Project
Lynne Hillier and Gabrielle
Bennett (The Alfred
The project aimed to further
develop the What is this Hep C
thing? Internet activity resource
(developed in 2003) to make it
a more accessible and valuable
resource for secondary school
teachers and students. The
original resource was an internet
based activity for secondary
students that aimed to raise
awareness of hepatitis C including
methods of transmission. As
well as giving young people the
knowledge they need to protect
themselves from hepatitis
C, it also aimed to reduce
discrimination against people who
have hepatitis C by refuting myths
about transmission. However
the evaluation indicated that it
needed to be more accessible to
ensure good use.
The aim of the evaluation is to
increase the ease of accessibility
and usefulness of the What is
this Hep C thing?
The report is complete.
Since its inception ARCSHS has had a
dedicated unit for putting the research carried
out at the Centre into policy and practice.
This work has always presented a funding
challenge. Whilst the Centre’s expertise
contributes a great deal to the development
and achievement of national strategies and to
the body of knowledge leading to improved
health outcomes, securing the necessary
research funding can be challenge enough
without finding additional resources to ensure
community liaison functions occur.
While ‘community liaison’ work is carried
out across the Centre by all the researchers
ARCSHS is also committed to employing
people in designated positions to help create
a climate in which change is more readily
facilitated, and to identify opportunities for
action. The achievements of the Blood Borne
Virus Program attest to the value of having
a person specially designated to carry out
this role.
Community liaison work has led to a number
of opportunities in the last year to contribute to
major developments in health and education
both within Victoria and across Australia.
Research into Policy
Many of our efforts in research dissemination
go into directly influencing government policy
to ensure it is evidence based. This involves
both direct advocacy and in responding to
government discussion papers. Examples from
this year’s work are responses to the Victorian
government’s Vulnerable Youth Framework
discussion paper as well as the Seniors Speak
Up and the Why Mental Health Matters
discussion papers. Centre research was
quoted directly in the Victorian Department of
Education and Early Childhood Policy Sexual
Diversity in Schools and in the Department
of Human Services Gay men’s sexual health
strategy Something Borrowed, Something
New, which we were commissioned to write.
In 2009 we hope to continue all of this work
and to find new projects which give our
research the profile and impact it deserves
The Blood Borne Virus Program
The BBV Program is a program within the
CLEU, and its main focus is workforce
development. The BBV Program Coordinator
Jen Johnson remains a key BBV contact point
within the health and community sector, and
continues to collaboratively initiate a range
of workforce development activities. This
program is gold standard when it comes to
what we really like to achieve with community
liaison - facilitating discussion both among
and between researchers, practitioners and
affected communities. Some of the work
achieved over 2008 includes:
In 2007 ARCSHS completed the first ever
Needs Assessment for hepatitis B, which
gave us the first substantial view into the
challenges for affected communities accessing
appropriate care and treatment. A series
of forums followed, convened by Jacqui
Richmond (St Vincent’s Hospital) and Jack
Wallace (ARCSHS). Attendance at the forums
was overwhelming.
A new initiative in 2008, the ‘BBV News’
consists of a bulletin report sent every 2-3
weeks containing a summary of BBV related
research, resources, and events.
The Victorian Hepatitis B Working Group,
a community based working group, was
convened in April 2008 to focus on advocacy,
workforce development and engaging
communities. It is also an Australian first,
which represents community based (not
clinically based) interests and concerns
around hepatitis B.
School
Education
Chlamydia the Secret is Out
Jenny Walsh, Mandy Hudson, Anne Mitchell
Chlamydia the secret is out: DVD and work book was
completed and sent around Australia during 2008.
Around 5000 copies were sent to departments of
education and independent school organisations. Orders
have been flowing in for more copies from secondary
teachers and school nurses and other community
agencies. The most gratifying aspect of this has been
the numbers of people from indigenous communities
who like the DVD and are seeking copies to use in
their communities. Jenny Walsh, Mandy Hudson and
the video production team, Seven Dimensions, were
extremely pleased to receive a Finalist Certificate in
the Global Awards for World’s Best Work in Healthcare
Communications, for DVD and workbook.
Catching On – Professional Development for Secondary
School Educators
Our education and training programs help people
translate outcomes into action. After seven years we
have come to the end of our run with the Catching On
professional development programs - designed around
using the secondary schools curriculum we developed
for Victorian secondary schools back in 2001.
Catching On Early – Professional Development for
Primary School Educators
Our connections with education departments and
educators alike told us that many schools were seeking
guidance on the ‘how to talk’ to young children about
sex and relationships. We designed a course to coincide
with the development of a primary school curriculum
that would help teachers prepare themselves for their
important role in establishing the foundations for future
relationships.
Based on consultations with education providers, a
resource has been developed along with training.
Gay and Lesbian
Health Victoria
Gay and Lesbian Health Victoria is situated within
ARCSHS and in 2003 was set up in consortium with
Women’s Health Victoria and the Victorian AIDS Council
funded by the Victorian Department of Human Services.
The role of the Unit is to ‘enhance and promote the
health and well being of GLBTI people in Victoria’ by:
•
establishing and implementing best practice
standards of care
•
training health care providers and health
organisations about GLBTI health needs and
appropriate service delivery
•
developing health resources for GLBTI communities,
in conjunction with mainstream services
•
establishing a research and information
clearinghouse as a resource for health care
providers, researchers and individuals to use in
researching their own health issues.
•
providing advice to Government on the planning
and development of future GLBTI programs.
Staff of the Unit in 2008 were Associate Professor Anne
Mitchell (Director), Liam Leonard (Health Education
and Policy), Sunil Patel (Information and Resources)
and Felicity Marlowe and Roz Ward (Rainbow Network
Coordinators). Sue Hackney of the Way Out Statewide
Project with rural same sex attracted young people
(SSAY) was also part of our team.
This year we followed up on the research launched in
late 2007 on transgender people and were successful in
seeing it used widely to create social change. As well as
distributing around 500 copies of the report Australiawide, we saw it well used in other ways. The Sex and
Gender Diversity Issues Paper released by the Human
Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission in May
2008 used this research as one of two key elements in
developing the paper, and many transgender people are
using the research to respond. The Victorian Ministerial
Advisory Committee on Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and
Intersex Health has quoted TranZnation data in its
work plan for 2008/9 and developed actions based on
these data. The research was used extensively in the
development of the Victorian Guidelines for Managing
Prisoners with Transsexualism and Intersex Conditions,
and also in responses to the current review of the Equal
Opportunity Act of Victoria.
This year our on-line clearinghouse continued to attract
nearly 500 unique users a day and we carried out an
evaluation to ensure we were meeting the needs of our
visitors. In May we were delighted to receive Health on
the Net (HONcode) accreditation for medical and health
web sites. This accreditation which is endorsed by WHO
indicates we are a site of international standing in the
provision of health information. The majority of users are
searching for information about gay friendly service providers
indicating that many gay people find it difficult to find a
health service they can trust. One of the health promotion
resources we produced this year was a brochure to assist
people in finding the right service in Victoria.
Our biggest success story for 2008 was the Rainbow
Network of workers with same sex attracted young people.
This year the network celebrated 10 years of operation
and from a very small beginning has expanded to provide
resources and training opportunities to its members as
well as to other interested organisations such as schools
and local councils. Some years ago this valuable resource
received funding from the Reichstein Foundation to support
it over a 5 year period but more recently has been funded
by DHS. At the 10th birthday party Dr Jim Hyde, Director
of Public Health in Victoria, attended to announce a large
expansion in funding for its work.
We look forward to 2009 as a year of expansion on many
fronts and for also continuing much of the work we are
already doing well.
Coming Forward: The Underreporting of Homophobic
Violence and Same Sex Partner Abuse in Victoria
William Leonard, Anne Mitchell, Sunil Patel,
Christopher Fox
This is a project looking at ways of increasing reporting of
acts of homophobic violence and same-sex partner abuse.
Nearly 400 participants responded to an on-line survey
about their past and most recent experiences of homophobic
violence and same-sex partner abuse. It also explored their
experiences accessing services and pursuing cases through
the criminal justice system; their knowledge and use of the
Victoria Police Gay and Lesbian Liaison Officers; and barriers
and “incentives” to their reporting and seeking assistance
following an incident of homophobic violence or same-sex
partner abuse.
The research found that large numbers of GLBTI Victorians
live with a background of low level violence and abuse on
a daily basis and often hide their sexuality because of it. It
found that the actuality and threat of homophobic violence
that are a part of GLBTI Victorians day-to-day lives affect
their health and wellbeing and limit their willingness and
ability to participate in political, social and cultural life. It
also found that while the Gay and Lesbian Liaison Officers
were found to provide a useful service, this was not true of
mainstream police.
Launch of the Coming Forward Report”
Postgraduate Program
New ARCSHS Projects
for 2008
Educational Activities
2008 has been a year of consolidation and expansion in postgraduate studies at ARCSHS. Five new students, Jeffrey Smith,
La Manh Cuong (Vietnam), Lizzie Smith, Joni Meenagh (Canada) and Biswajit Banik (Bangladesh) each with postgraduate
scholarships, joined our postgraduate program. Debbie Ollis had her PhD conferred and received an ‘outstanding thesis’
award from LaTrobe University, and Karolyn McDonald passed her thesis with excellent referees’ reports. Students basked
under the tutelage of Dr Michael Hurley and Dr Sue Dyson who facilitated weekly postgraduate seminars.
Funder
Chief Investigator
Project Title
ACT-HBV
WALLACE, Jack
National Hepatitis B Needs Assessment
AFL-Australian Football League
DYSON, Sue
Creating Safe Supportive Football Club Environments for
Women and Girls (Respect and Responsibility Program)
AusAID
PITTS, Marian
Implementation of AusAID Regional HIV/AIDS Capacity
Building program
AusAID
PITTS, Marian
Targeted HIV Social Research Program
ARCSHS continues to provide a stimulating intellectual environment to support the cutting edge interdisciplinary sexuality
research of our 14 national and international postgraduate students. Postgraduates continue to draw on the expertise of the
broad and diverse research staff. At ARCSHS and are an integral part of the Centre’s collegial and collaborative atmosphere.
Australian Research Council (ARC)
PITTS, Marian
The ART of making babies: How human embryo research
and assisted reproduction are regulated in Australia and
New Zealand
Theses passed/conferred in 2008
Australian Research Council (ARC)
REGAN, David
(SMITH, Anthony)
Planning female and male vaccination and cervical
screening strategies to achieve optimal prevention of HPVrelated disease
beyondblue
MITCHELL, Anne
Depression in non-heterosexual people
Commonwealth Department of
Health and Ageing
PITTS, Marian
National Research Centres in HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis and STIs
Ford Foundation
DOWSETT, Gary
Amy O’ Shea
Sexuality and Young Women with an Intellectual Disability
(Supervisors: Lynne Hillier and Sue Dyson with Kelley Johnson UK)
Development of a short course in advanced sexuality theory
and methodology in developing countries: Phase 2 & 3
La Trobe University
GRIERSON, Jeffrey
Students’ social networks size, composition and stability
New students in 2008
La Trobe University
LIAMPUTTONG,
Pranee (PITTS, Marian)
Online dating and risk amongst young online users:
implications for sexual health promotion and public health
intervention
La Trobe University
PITTS, Marian
Dynamics and contexts of male to male sex in Vietnam
NHMRC-National Health and
Medical Research Council
GARLAND, Suzanne
(PITTS, Marian)
Genetic and environmental factors in invasive cervical
cancer: a twin study
Queensland Health
McNALLY, Stephen
La Manh Cuong
The Contribution of Emerging Sexual Expression to Changes in
Masculinities among Young Married Middle Class Men in Hanoi,
Vietnam
(Supervisors: Gary Dowsett and Sean Slavin)
Conduct an evaluation of the Hepatitis C shared care
initiative in Queensland and report on outcomes of the
initiative.
Secretariat of the Pacific (SPC)
COUCH, Murray
Development of Pacific Peer Education Program
development and management guideline
Biswajit Banik
A Quantitative Research Study on Access to Screening and
Treatment Services for Sexually Transmitted Infections and
Associated Risk Behaviours of Young Men, aged 16 - 25 years
in Rural and Regional Victoria
(Supervisors: Anthony Smith and Marian Pitts)
UNAIDS: Joint United Nations
Programme on HIV/AIDS
PITTS, Marian
Commission on AIDS in the Pacific - How to secure and
sustain the meaningful involvement of communities?
Victorian Health Promotion
Foundation (VicHealth)
FLOOD, Michael
Applied Research and evaluation related to the primary
prevention of violence against women
Victorian Law Foundation
MITCHELL, Anne
Making It Happen Together 08 (“Coming Forward”)
William Buckland Foundation
HILLIER, Lynne
Scaling up writing themselves in again: Making research
work for change (Beyond Homophobia)
Our students were successful in attracting funds for their studies. Joni Meenagh, Maria Platt, La Manh Cuong, Amie O’Shea
and Jayne Russell received Faculty Postgraduate funding. Jayne Russell also received $500 from Melbourne University to
attend a social networking course. La Manh Cuong continues to be supported financially by the Ford Foundation to carry out
his fieldwork in Vietnam. Finally Biswajit Banik won an Envirosmart and Greening LaTrobe award for his best local idea about
greening our university.
Debbie Ollis (PhD conferred)
Affirming Diversity in Health & Sexuality Education from Research
to Policy to Practice
(Supervisors: Lynne Hillier & Doreen Rosenthal (University of
Melbourne))
Karalyn McDonald (PhD passed but not conferred)
HIV Positive Women, Pregnancy and Motherhood
(Supervisors: Jon Willis, Doreen Rosenthal (University of
Melbourne) & Maggie Kirkman (University of Melbourne)
PhD students
Gillian Fletcher
Objectivity, Transgression, Education and Power: The Adoption of
Reflective Learning in Peer Education
(Supervisors: Michael Hurley & Stephen McNally)
Christopher Fox
Sizing up the Man: The Relationship between Perceived Penis Size
and Body Image
(Supervisors: Marian Pitts & Jon Willis)
Kirk Peterson
Sex, Money and Power: Deconstructing Moral Panic around Street
Prostitution in St Kilda
(Supervisors: Jon Willis & Lynne Hillier)
Maria Platt
Young Women, Health and Gender: The Rise of Islamic Women’s
Organisations in Mataram, Indonesia
(Supervisors: Linda Bennett & Jon Willis)
Jo Grzelinska (M.A. candidate)
The Hidden Populations of Men Who Have Sex With Men in
Bangladesh
(Supervisors: Gary Dowsett & Stephen McNally)
Natalie Rinehart
Psychological and Sociological Predictors of Help-seeking in
Heroin Users
(Supervisor: Marian Pitts)
Jayne Russell
Dyadic Perspectives on Support for Women Living with HIV/AIDS
in Australia: An Exploratory Study
(Supervisors Anthony Smith & Jeffrey Grierson)
Deepa Dhital
‘Life Skills Related to HIV/AIDS in the Formal Education System)’
(Supervisors: Marian Pitts & Gary Dowsett)
Lizzie Smith
Managing Meanings: Women, Sex Work and Ethics of Care of
the Self
(Supervisors: Lynne Hillier and Sue Dyson)
Jeffrey Smith
Relationship between Domestic Space and the Sexual Subjectivity of
Homosexually Active Men of South Asian Background in Australia
(Supervisors: Gary Dowsett and Anthony Smith)
Joni Meenagh
Practising Sexual Ethics: New Media Environments and Sexual
Subjectivities of Australian Youth
(Supervisors: Lynne Hillier and Michael Hurley)
Funding
$
Funds received from the sources listed here totalled
$
5,362,950
$
Department of Education and Early Childhood Development
35,084
Catching on Early
The contributions from all granting bodies is gratefully acknowledged
35,084
Beyond Blue
Department of Health and Ageing, Australia
HIV, STI, and Blood Borne Viruses Strategic Research
Chlamydia Implementation Program
Australian Secondary Students and Sexual Health Survey 2008
906,754
Australian Longitudinal study of health and relationships (ALSHR)
Developing, sustaining and evaluating health programs for Aboriginal men
12,000
546,484
546,484
AOGIN and GSK grant-in-aid / Royal Women’s Hospital
451,224
861,000
159,188
HPV Knowledge and awareness in Singapore
159,188
La Trobe University
791,250
69,750
Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
Scoping paper to determine the extent of depression in non-heterosexual people
Sexuality theory & methodology in developing countries - short course development
49,807
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
12,000
Ford Foundation
405,723
582,876
74,066
Gay men, monogamy and sexual health
18,700
DVC Research investment
21,666
Operating grant (Faculty of Health Sciences - La Trobe University)
310,943
Desert Aboriginal Men: Improving Health Outcomes
Research Infrastructure Block Grant (La Trobe University)
176,304
South African Student Network Study - Kwa Zulu Natel
18,700
Monogamy: meanings and practices among gay men
10,000
Research Training Scheme and IGS (Faculty of Health Sciences - La Trobe University)
95,629
AusAID
545,517
5,000
Faculty of Health Sciences
500
Workplan Development Phase
53,447
Postgraduate Research Support Grants
Building HIV Social Research Capacity - Indonesia
93,324
Australian Football League
Building HIV Social Research Capacity - Mekong
76,640
Respectful behaviour
Building HIV Social Research Capacity - Network
97,106
Creating Safe Supportive Football Club Environments for Women and Girls
(Respect and Responsibility Program)
Targeted HIV Social Research - Papua New Guinea and the Pacific
225,000
Australian Health Ministers’ Advisory Council (AHMAC)
Regulating Hepatitis C: Rights and Duties - PDR 2005/09
61,500
Australian Research Council
The Art of Making Babies
31,620
Mapping Gay Communities
HIV Seroconversion
BBV /STI Education and Training
Rainbow Network
528,605
255,477
475,888
105,000
Public Health Research Fellowship ‘Muslim Youth, Social Connectedness, Health and
Education in Victoria’ (Bennett, L)
Practice Leader Fellowship ‘The Primary Prevention of Violence Against Women’
(Flood, M)
80,000
26,292
26,292
Department of Health, Western Australia
63,291
63,291
175,859
175,859
Harold Mitchell Foundation
40,000
Public Health Research Fellowship ‘A Longitudinal Study of Young People, Sexual
Diversity, Resilience & Social Networks’ (Hillier, L)
57,819
Victorian Law Foundation
Scaling up Writing Themselves In Again: making research work for change
101,610
165,000
57,819
William Buckland Foundation
79,431
Senior Public Health Research Fellowship ‘Men, sexuality & health’ (Dowsett, G)
33,600
Queensland Health
Parent Sexual Health Resources on behalf of the Communicable Disease Control
Directorate
52,087
VicHealth Promotion Foundation, Victoria
136,550
102,950
Making It Happen Together
31,620
Department of Human Services, Victoria
500
An evaluation of the Hepatitis shared care program in Queensland
61,500
$
10,000
Travel Fellowship
10,000
Consultancy Services
9,775
Ansell Health Care
9,775
Sitting fees and Honoraria
7,500
7,500
54,782
54,782
Course fees & other miscellaneous income (including Interest earned)
125,888
Committee Memberships
National
Advancing the Clinical Treatment of
Hepatitis B Virus (ACT-HBV) (Jack Wallace)
Advisory body for Review and update of the
National Hepatitis C Resource Manual, 2nd
edition (Jack Wallace)
Andrology Australia Board of Management
(Marian Pitts)
Australian Federation of AIDS Organisation
(AFAO) Board Member (Jeffrey Grierson)
Australian Research Council College of
Experts (Marian Pitts)
Australian Research Council College of
Experts, Chair of Social, Behavioural and
Economic Sciences (Marian Pitts)
Haemophilia Foundation Hepatitis C
Advisory Group (Jack Wallace)
Ministerial Advisory Committee on AIDS,
Sexual Health and Hepatitis, Hepatitis SubCommittee (Jack Wallace)
National External Community Reference
Group for Centrelink (same sex couples
legislative changes) (Anne Mitchell)
National Hepatitis B Alliance (Jack Wallace,
Marian Pitts)
National Program Committee (NPC)
ASHM Annual Conferences 2007-2010
(Jeffrey Grierson)
Scientific Advisory Committee, National
Centre for HIV Social Research, University
of New South Wales (Marian Pitts)
State
Advisory Group, UAIC Thinktank, Positive
Life, NSW (Michael Hurley)
Board of Family Access Network (Lynne
Hillier)
Consumer Participation and Advisory
Committee, Department of Human Services
Department of Human Services (Anne
Mitchell)
Diversity, Access and Inclusion Reference
Group, City of Moonee Valley (Anne
Mitchell)
Victorian AIDS Council/ Gay Men’s Health
Centre, Member Campaigns Advisory
Committee (Jeffrey Grierson)
Victorian AIDS Council/Gay Men’s Health
Centre, Research Promotion and Ethics
Committee (Jeffrey Grierson [Chair])
Victorian Hepatitis B Working Group (Jen
Johnson)
Victorian Ministerial Advisory Committee
on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, transgender and
Intersex Health (Anne Mitchell)
YGLAM Video and Theatre Group, Steering
Committee (Lynne Hillier)
International
Member, Program Committee, International
Academy of Sex Research, 2008-2009
(Gary Dowsett)
Founding steering committee member,
International Research Network on Gender,
Sexuality and HIV/AIDS, 2008 (Gary
Dowsett)
Member, Track D Social Science
Programming Committee, and CrossCutting Themes Track, of the XVII
International Conference on AIDS, Mexico
City, August 2008 (Gary Dowsett)
Organising Committee Rainbow
Conversations conference in Association
with Asia Pacific Out Games (Anne
Mitchell)
Murray Couch was awarded the status of
Visiting Fellow by the Papua New Guinea
National Research Institute.
La Trobe University
Faculty Higher Degrees Committee (Exofficio) (Anthony Smith)
Faculty of Health Sciences Board (Marian
Pitts)
Faculty of Health Sciences Development
Committee (Marian Pitts)
Faculty of Health Sciences Human Ethics
Committee (Sue Dyson)
Faculty Planning & Resources Committee
(member) (Anthony Smith)
Eltham Gay Group (EGG), Steering
Committee (Lynne Hillier)
Faculty Research Committee (Chair)
(Anthony Smith)
Jesuit Social Services in Melbourne, board
member (Brian McCoy)
Research & Graduate Studies Committee
(University, member) (Anthony Smith)
Primary Care and Population Health
Committee, Royal Women’s Hospital (Anne
Mitchell)
Research Support Functional Review
Working Party (University, member)
(Anthony Smith)
VicHealth Violence Against Women
Advisory Committee (Michael Flood)
Assessment and review
Victoria Police Gay and Lesbian Reference
Group (Anne Mitchell)
Victorian AIDS Council Research and Ethics
Committee (Anne Mitchell)
Australian Research Council (Gary
Dowsett)
Harvard University Press (Lynne Hillier)
NHMRC (Marian Pitts, Anthony Smith,
Gary Dowsett, Julia Shelley, Jon Willis)
Publications
NHS Health Technology Assessment
Programme (Julia Shelley)
VicHealth Research Fellowships, PhD
Scholarships and Small Project Grants
(Julia Shelley)
Membership on Editorial Boards
Member, Editorial Board, Australian and
New Zealand Journal of Public Health,
Public Health Association of Australia,
2005- (Gary Dowsett)
Senior Reviews Editor, Culture, Health and
Sexuality, Routledge/Taylor and Francis,
London, UK, 1999- (Gary Dowsett)
Men and Masculinities: A Journal of
Interdisciplinary Studies on Gender
(Michael Flood)
Member, Editorial Board, Sex Education:
Sexuality, Society and Learning, Routledge/
Taylor and Francis, UK, 2001- (Gary
Dowsett)
Member, Advisory Board, Sextures:
e-journal for sexualities, cultures, and
politics, Macedonia, 2008- (Gary Dowsett)
Sexual Health (Gary Dowsett - joint editor)
Sexual Health (Marian Pitts - joint editor)
Sexual Health (Anthony Smith [Member of
Editorial Advisory Board])
Member, Editorial Board, Sexualities, Sage,
UK, 2001- (Gary Dowsett)
Sexualities, Evolution and Gender (Marian
Pitts)
Member, International Editorial Board,
Sexuality Research and Social Policy:
Journal of the National Sexuality Resources
Center, State University of San Francisco,
USA, 2003- (Gary Dowsett)
Co-editor, book series on Sexuality, Culture
and Health, Routledge/Taylor and Francis,
UK, 2000- (Gary Dowsett)
Thesis examination
Linda Bennett, PhD thesis, University of
Queensland
Murray Couch, MA thesis, University of
Melbourne
Gary Dowsett, PhD thesis, University of
Queensland
Lynne Hillier, PhD thesis, Deakin University
Michael Hurley, PhD thesis, University of
South Australia
Stephen McNally, PhD thesis, Monash
University
Anne Mitchell, Master of Medicine (STD/
HIV) thesis, University of Sydney
Marian Pitts, PhD thesis, University of New
South Wales; Master of Clinical Psychology
thesis, University of Newcastle
Book
McCoy, B. F. (2008). Holding Men:
Kanyirninpa and the health of Aboriginal
Men: Aboriginal Studies Press.
Book sections
Bennett, L. (2008). Poverty, opportunity
and purity in paradise: women working
in Lombok’s tourist hotels. In M. Ford
& L. Parker (Eds.), Women and Work
in Indonesia (pp. 82-103). London:
Routledge.
Flood, M. (2008). Engaging Men:
Strategies and dilemmas in violence
prevention education among men. In A.
Barnard, N. Horner, J. Wild. (Ed.), The
Value Basis of Social Work and Social
Care: Open University Press.
Flood, M., & Hamilton, C. (2008).
Mapping Homophobia in Australia. In
S. Robinson. (Ed.), Homophobia: An
Australian History (pp. 16-38). Leichhardt,
New South Wales.: Federation Press.
Marshall, D. (2008). Homophobic bullying
and human rights: non-deficit approaches
in queer youth wellbeing policy and
practice. In C. Newell & B. Offord (Eds.),
Activating Human Rights in Education:
Exploration, Innovation and Transformation
(pp. 144). Deakin West, Australian Capital
Territory: Australian College of Educators.
McCoy, B. (2008). Death and Health:
The Resilience of ‘Sorry Business’ in the
Kutjungka Region of Western Australia. In
K. Glaskin, M. Tonkinson, Y. Musharbash
& V. Burbank (Eds.), Mortality, Mourning
and Mortuary Practices in Indigenous
Australia (pp. 55-68). Farnham, Surrey,
England and Burlington, VT, USA: Ashgate
Publishing Limited.
McCoy, B. (2008). Maparn: Traditionalist
Health and Healing in a Western and
Christian world. In O. Lardinois & B.
Vermander (Eds.), Shamanism and
Christianity: Religious encounters among
indigenous peoples of East Asia (pp. 195212). Taipei, Taiwan: Taipei Ricci Institute.
McCoy, B. (2008). Researching with
Aboriginal Men: A Desert Experience.
In P. Liamputtong (Ed.), Doing CrossCultural Research (Vol. 34, pp. 175-191):
Springer.
Refereed Journal Articles
Baadjo, T., Mosquito, G., & McCoy, B.
(2008). Who makes decisions for the
unconscious Aboriginal patient? Aboriginal
and Islander Health Worker Journal,
32(7), 6-8.
Bennett, L., & Parker, L. (2008). Body,
Sexuality and Gender among Contemporary
Indonesian Youth: Introduction.
Intersections, (18).
Brown, A., Bulman, J., McCoy, B.,
Rowley, K., Mulholland, D., Winch, S.,
et al. (2008). First National Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander Men’s Health
Researcher Gathering, Alice Springs, 2008.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker
Journal, 32(5), 25-26.
Couch, M., Mulcare, H., Pitts, M., Smith,
A., & Mitchell, A. (2008). The Religious
Affiliation of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,
Transgender and Intersex Australians: A
Report From the Private Lives Survey.
People and Place, 16(1), 1-11.
Couch, M., Pitts, M., Croy, S., Mulcare,
H., & Mitchell, A. (2008). Transgender
people and the amendment of formal
documentation: Matters of recognition
and citizenship. Health Sociology Review,
17(3), 280-289.
Dowsett, G. W. (2008). Losing my
chestnut: one gay man’s wrangle with
prostate cancer. Reproductive Health
Matters, 16(32), 145-150.
Dowsett, G. W., Williams, H., CarballoDiéguez, A., & Ventuneac, A. (2008).
“Taking it like a man”: masculinity and
barebacking online. Sexualities, 11(1/2),
121-141.
Fairley, C. K., Grulich, A., Imrie, J., &
Pitts, M. (2008). Introductory Editorial:
the analysis of a natural experiment in HIV
control. Sexual Health, 5(2), 89-89.
Fairley, C. K., Grulich, A., Imrie, J., & Pitts,
M. (2008). Investment in HIV prevention
works: a natural experiment. Sexual
Health, 5(2), 207-210
Fairley, C. K., Grulich, A., Imrie, J., & Pitts,
M. (2008). Sexually transmissible infection
and HIV management among men who
have sex with men with and without HIV:
survey of medical practitioners who are
members of the Australasian Society for
HIV Medicine. Sexual Health, 5(2), 155159.
Falster, K., Gelgor, L., Shaik, A., Zablotska,
I., Prestage, G., Grierson, J., et al. (2008).
Trends in antiretroviral treatment use and
treatment response in three Australian
states in the first decade of combination
antiretroviral treatment. Sexual Health,
5(2), 141-154.
Flood, M. (2008). Men, Sex, and
Homosociality: How bonds between men
shape their sexual relations with women.
Men and Masculinities, 10(3), 339-359.
Garland, S., Brotherton, J., Skinner,
S. R., Pitts, M., Saville, M., Mola, G.,
et al. (2008). Human Papillomavirus
and Cervical Cancer in Australasia and
Oceania: Risk Factors, Epidemiology and
Prevention. Vaccine, 26(Supplement 12),
M80-M88.
Hillier, L., & Mitchell, A. (2008). “It was as
useful as a chocolate kettle”: sex education
in the lives of young same sex attracted
people in Australia. Sex Education, 8(2),
211-224.
Hillier, L., Mitchell, A., & Mulcare, H.
(2008). ‘I can’t do both at the same
time’: Same sex attracted youth and the
negotiation of religious discourse. Gay and
Lesbian Issues and Psychology Review.
Special issue on Mental health and LGB
communities, 4(2), 80-93.
Jin, F., Prestage, G., McDonald, A.,
Ramacciotti, T., Imrie, J., Zablotska, I., et
al. (2008). Trends in HIV incidence in a
cohort of homosexual men in Sydney: data
from the HIM study. Sexual Health, 5(2),
109-112.
Lister, N. A., Chaves, N. J., Pang, C. W.,
Smith, A., & Fairley, C. K. (2008). Clinical
significance of questionnaire-elicited or
clinically reported anorectal symptoms
for rectal Neisseria gonorrhoeae and
Chlamydia trachomatis amongst men who
have sex with men. Sexual Health, 5(2),
77-82.
Mao, L., Templeton, D., Crawford, J.,
Imrie, J., Prestage, G., Grulich, A., et
al. (2008). Does circumcision make a
difference to the sexual experience of gay
men? Findings from the Health in Men
(HIM) cohort. Journal of Sexual Medicine,
5, 2557-2561.
McCoy, B. F. (2008). Outside the Ward
and Clinic: Healing the Aboriginal Body.
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography,
37(2), 226-245
McNair, R., Brown, R., Perlesz, A., Lindsay,
J., de Vaus, D., & Pitts, M. (2008).
Lesbian Parents Negotiating the health
care system in Australia. Health Care for
Women International, 29(2), 91-114.
Pitts, M. (2008). The need for public
education on HPV and cervical cancer
prevention in Asia: Opinions of experts at
the AOGIN Conference. Vaccine, 26(43),
5435-5440.
Pitts, M., & Smith, A. (2008).
Understanding Oral Sex - Editorial in
refereed journal. Sexual Health, 5.
Pitts, M., Ferris, J., Smith, A., Shelley,
J., & Richters, J. (2008). Prevalence and
correlates of three types of pelvic pain
in a nationally representative sample of
Australian women. The Medical Journal of
Australia, 189(3), 138-143.
Pitts, M., K., Ferris, J. A., Smith, A. M.
A., Shelley, J., & Richters, J. (2008).
Prevalence and correlates of three types of
pelvic pain in a nationally representative
sample of Australian men. Journal of
Sexual Medicine, 5(5), 1223-1229.
Publications
Prestage, G., Ferris, J., Grierson, J.,
Thorpe, R., Zablotska, I., Imrie, J.,
et al. (2008). Homosexual men in
Australia: population, distribution and HIV
prevalence. Sexual Health, 5(2), 97-102.
Prestage, G., Jin, F., Zablotska, I., Grulich,
A., Imrie, J., Kaldor, J., et al. (2008).
Trends in agreements between regular
partners among gay men in Sydney,
Melbourne, and Brisbane Australia. AIDS
and Behaviour, 12, 513-520.
Prestage, G., Jin, F., Zablotska, I., Imrie,
J., Grulich, A., & Pitts, M. (2008). Trends
in HIV testing among homosexual and
bisexual men in eastern Australian states.
Sexual Health, 5(2), 119-123.
Prestage, G., Jin, F., Zablotska, I., Imrie,
J., Kaldor J, & Grulich, A. (2008). Trends
in HIV prevalence among homosexual and
bisexual men in eastern Australian states.
Sexual Health, 5(2), 103-107.
Richters., J., deVisser., R. O., Rissel., C.
E., Grulich., A. E., & Smith., A. M. (2008).
Demographic and Psychosocial Features
of Participants in Bondage and Discipline,
“Sadomasochism” or Dominance and
Submission (BDSM): Data from a National
Survey. Journal of Sexual Medicine, 5,
1660-1668.
Zablotska, I., Imrie, J., Bourne, C., Grulich,
A., Frankland, A., & Prestage, G. (2008).
Improvements in sexual health testing
among gay men in Sydney, Australia
2003-2007. International Journal of STD
and AIDS, 19, 758-760.
Zablotska, I., Prestage, G., Grulich, A., &
Imrie, J. (2008). Differing trends in sexual
risk behaviours in three Australian States:
New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland,
1998-2006. Sexual Health, 5(2), 125-130.
Reports
Bennett, G., & Hillier, L. (2008). What is
this hep C thing? Stage 2: development
of teachers’ resources and CD. Final
evaluation report. Melbourne: The Alfred
Hospital.
Corboz, J., Dowsett, G., Mitchell, A.,
Couch, M., Agius, P., Pitts, M. (2008).
Feeling Queer and Blue: A Review of the
Literature on Depression and Related
Issues among Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual
and Other Homosexually Active People.
Report prepared for beyondblue: The
National Depression Initiative. Melbourne:
Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health
and Society, La Trobe University.
Rowe, M. S., & Dowsett, G. W. (2008).
Sex, love, friendship, belonging and place:
Is there a role for ‘Gay Community’ in
HIV prevention today? Culture, Health &
Sexuality, 10(4), 329-344.
Dyson, S. (2008). Catching On
Everywhere. Sexuality Education Program
Development for Victorian Schools. Part
One: Program Planning, Concepts and
Policy. Department of Education and Early
Childhood Development, Melbourne.
(distributed to all schools in Victoria).
Skinner., S. R., Garland., S. M., Stanley.,
M. A., Pitts., M., & Quinn., M. A. (2008).
Human papillomavirus vaccination for
the prevention of cervical neoplasia: is it
appropriate to vaccinate women older than
26? Medical Journal of Australia, 188(4),
238-242.
Dyson, S. (2008). Catching On
Everywhere. Sexuality Education Program
Development for Victorian Schools.
Part Two: school practice in sexuality
education. Department of Education and
Early Childhood Development, Melbourne.
(distributed to all schools in Victoria).
Temple-Smith, M., Mak, D., Watson, J.,
Bastian, L., Smith, A., & Pitts, M. (2008).
Conversant or clueless? Chlamydiarelated knowledge and practice of general
practitioners in Western Australia. BioMed
Central Family Practice, 9, 17.
Dyson, S. (2008). Fair Game Respect
Matters. Respect and Responsibility
Program Australian Football (culture
change kit for use in community football
clubs).
Templeton, D., Mao, L., Prestage, G., Jin, F.,
Kaldor, J., & Grulich, A. (2008). Self-report
is a valid measure of circumcision status in
homosexual men. STI Online, 84, 187-188.
Thorpe, R., Grierson, J., & Pitts, M. (2008).
Gender differences in patterns of HIV service
use in a national sample of HIV-positive
Australians. AIDS Care, 20(5), 547-552
Zablotska, I., Crawford, J., Imrie, J.,
Prestage, G., Jin, F., Grulich, A., et al.
(2008). Increases in unprotected anal
intercourse with serodiscordant casual
partners among HIV negative gay men
in Sydney. AIDS and Behaviour, DOI
10.1007/s10461-008-9506-x.
continued
Dyson, S., & Flood, M. (2008). Building
cultures of respect and non-violence.
A review of literature concerning adult
learning and violence prevention with
men. Respect and Responsibility Programs,
Australian Football League & VicHealth,
Melbourne.
Flood, M. (2008). Fathers’ Rights and
Violence Against Women: National
Coalition Against Domestic Violence, USA.
Flood, M., & Fergus, L. (2008). An Assault
on Our Future: The impact of violence on
young people and their relationships.
Grierson, J., Thorpe, R., Pitts, M., Hughes,
A., Saxton, P., Smith, J., et al. (2008). HIV
Futures New Zealand 2 [Mate _raikore
a muri ake nei (Tuarua)] (ARCSHS
Monograph No. 66). Melbourne, Australia:
Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health
and Society, Latrobe University.
Grierson., J., Smith., A., & von Doussa., H.
(2008). An Ordinary Night Out: A Report
on the Research Project Pivotal, Peripheral
or Positional Understanding SOPV for
Intervention (ARCSHS Monograph No. 68).
Melbourne, Australia: Australian Research
Centre in Sex, Health and Society, Latrobe
University.
Johnston, K., & Hillier, L. (2008). “Great
idea - just can’t be done by us”: an
evaluated trial of a sex positive website for
men who have sex with men. Melbourne:
Victorian AIDS Council.
Leonard, W. (2008). Something borrowed,
something new: Addressing increased
rates of HIV and STI transmission among
gay men in Victoria. Prepared by William
Leonard on behalf of the Ministerial
Task Force on HIV and AIDS. Victorian
Government Department of Human
Services Melbourne, Victoria.
Leonard, W., Dowsett, G., Slavin, S.,
Mitchell, A., & Pitts, M. (2008). Crystal
Clear: The social determinants of gay men’s
use of crystal methamphetamine in Victoria.
(ARCSHS Monograph No. 67). Melbourne,
Australia: Australian Research Centre in Sex,
Health and Society, La Trobe University.
Leonard, W., Mitchell, A., Patel, S., &
Fox, C. (2008). Coming forward: The
underreporting of heterosexist violence
and same sex partner abuse in Victoria.
(ARCSHS Monograph No. 69). Melbourne,
Australia: Australian Research Centre in
Sex, Health and Society, Latrobe University.
McConachy, D., McDonald, K., & Booker,
N. (2008). 4th IAS Conference on HIV
Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention:
Evaluation Report. Geneva, Switzerland:
International AIDS Society.
McCoy, B. (2008). Inquiry into petrol
sniffing and substance abuse in central
Australia: Senate Community Affairs
Committee.
McCoy, B., Ross, R., & Elston, J. (2008).
Boys to Men: Garbutt Magpies Twenty-Five
Years On (Community Report). Townsville.
McNally, S., & Dutertre, S. (2008).
Improving and increasing access to
Hepatitis C Treatment: A research
project exploring barriers to treatment for
people of Vietnamese and Cambodian
backgrounds. (ARCSHS Monograph No.
66). Melbourne, Australia: Australian
Research Centre in Sex, Health and
Society, La Trobe University.
Prestage, G., Hudson, J., Bradley, J.,
Down, I., Sutherland, R., Corrigan, N., et
al. (2008). TOMS: Three Or More Study.
Sydney, Australia: National Centre in
HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research,
University of New South Wales.
Other
Bennett, L., & Parker, L. (2008).
Body, Sexuality and Gender among
Contemporary Indonesian Youth (Editors
of special issue), Intersections.
Other contribution to Refereed Journal
Ferris, J. (2008). Review of book
“Making sense of sexual consent”.
Culture, Health & Sexuality, 10(2).
Ferris, J., Smith, A., Pitts, M., Shelley,
J., Richters, J., & Simpson, J. (2008).
Self reported sexual activity in Australian
sexagenarians [Letter]. British Medical
Journal, BMJ 2008;337:a1250, 367.
Hurley, M. (2008). review, ‘Whatever
Happened to Gay Life?’ Culture, Health
and Sexuality, 10(6), 645-647.
Leonard, W. (2008). Book Review:
Crystal meth and men who have sex with
men: What mental health professionals
need to know. Culture, Health &
Sexuality, 10(8), 833-835.
Marshall, D. (2008). The transformation
of sexuality: gender and identity in
contemporary youth culture [Review].
Gender and Education, 20(4), 417-418.
Guest Editorial in Refereed Journal
Hillier, L., Edwards, J., & Riggs, D.
(2008). Introduction to the special issue
on mental health and GLB communities.
Gay and Lesbian Issues and Psychology
Review. Special issue on Mental health
and GLB communities, 4, 4-7.
Articles in Non-Refereed Journals
Grierson, J. (2008). Where history meets
experience- living long term with HIV.
HIV Australia, 6(2).
McCoy, B. (2008). After apology, it’s
back to the future (later published as: The
dormitory children of Balgo, Reconciliation
News, 11, May, 10-11), Eureka Street
Online.
McCoy, B. (2008). Reflections of one
who came to stay. Eureka Street Online.
McCoy, B. (2008). Standing up for
students’ rites. Eureka Street Online.
McCoy, B. (2008). The Roots of
Aboriginal Activism. A Review of: Fight
for Liberty and Freedom: the Origins of
Australian Aboriginal Activism by John
Maynard & Coercive Reconciliation:
Stabilise, Normalise, Exit Aboriginal
Australia by Jon Altman & Melinda
Hinkson (eds). Eureka Street Online.
International
Clayton, S., Prestage, G., Imrie, J. &
Corrigan, N. (2008) Sero-sorting: is it
replacing safe-sex for gay men in Sydney?
XVII International AIDS Conference 2008.
Mexico City, Mexico.
Dowsett, G. W. (2008) De-Centring
the Penis: The New Masculinities and
Men’s Sexual Subjectivity. Invited panel
presentation. Thirty-Fourth Annual Meeting
of the International Academy of Sex
Research, Symposium VI: Demanding
Masculinities: How are sexology and society
dictating the definitions. Leuven, Belgium.
Ferris, J. (2008) Australian men and chronic
pelvic pain (CPP): Comparative results of
the National Institute of Health Chronic
Prostatitis Symptoms index (NIH-CPSI)
and the CPP scale using data from the
Australian Longitudinal Study of Health and
Relationships. Australasian Sexual Health
Conference. Perth Convention Centre. Perth,
Western Australia, Australia.
Ferris, J. (2008) Changes in lifetime
probability of abortion for Australian women:
Results from the Australian Longitudinal
Study of Health and Relationships.
Australasian Sexual Health Conference.
Perth Convention Centre. Perth, Western
Australia, Australia.
Ferris, J. (2008) Patterns of cannabis usage
in the Australian population: Data from the
Relationships. Australasian Professional
Society on Alcohol and other Drugs
Conference 2008. Sydney Convention and
Exhibition Centre. Sydney.
Ferris, J. (2008) Poly social-drug use in
the Australian population: Data from the
Ferris, J. (2008) Relationship concordance
and social drugs in the Australian
population: Insights from the Australian
Longitudinal Study of Health and
Ferris, J. (2008) Young adults, sexual
behaviour and multiple relationship partners:
Data from the Australian longitudinal study
of health and relationships. Australasian
Sexual Health Conference. Perth Convention
Centre. Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
Ferris, J., Pitts, M., Smith, A., Richters, J.,
Shelley, J. & Simpson, J. (2008) Australian
men and chronic pelvic pain: Comparative
results of the National Institute of Health
Chronic Prostatitis Symptoms Index (NIH-
CPSI) and the CPP scale using data from
the Australian Longitudinal Study of Health
and Relationships [Poster]. Australasian
Sexual Health Conference. Perth Convention
Flood, M. (2008) Involving Men in Efforts to
End Violence Against Women. From Margins
to Mainstream: 5th World Conference
on the Promotion of Mental Health &
the Prevention of Mental and Behavioral
Disorders. Melbourne.
Garland, S. & Pitts, M. (2008) Project
overview - public awareness and
psychological aspects of HPV vaccination.
AOGIN 2008 Seoul; The 3rd Biennial
Conference of Asia Oceanic Research
organization on Genital Infections and
Neoplasia. Sheraton Grande Walkerhill
Hotel, Seoul, Korea.
Grierson, J. & McNally, S. (2008) Research
for planning and advocacy. Pan Pacific
Gathering for HIV Positive People. Auckland,
New Zealand.
Grierson, J. (2008) Community Attitudes to
Sex on Premises Venues and Their Patrons.
AFAO HIV Educators Conference - ‘Gay Men’s
Lives’. Wollongong, New South Wales.
Grierson, J. (2008) Community Attitudes to
Sex on Premises Venues and Their Patrons.
AFAO HIV Educators Conference - ‘Gay Men’s
Lives’. Wollongong, New South Wales.
Grierson, J. (2008) HIV Futures NZ/Aus/
Pacific - An example of Grounded Research
as an Advocacy Tool, Invited Plenary. Pan
Pacific Gathering for HIV Positive People.
Auckland, New Zealand.
Grierson, J. (2008) Male to Male Sex and
HIV in the Asia/Pacific Region (Invited
paper). Rainbow Conversations: GLBTI
human rights in the Asia Pacific. Melbourne.
Grierson, J., McNally, S., Couch, M. & Pitts,
M. (2008) Contextualising Male-To-Male-Sex
in Indonesia and Thailand XVII International
AIDS Conference. Mexico City.
Grierson, J., Pitts, M., McNally, S. & Couch,
M. (2008) Male to Male Sex and HIV in the
Asia/Pacific Region: Politics, Polemics and
Pragmatics. 3rd International Conference on
Interdisciplinary Social Sciences. Prato, Italy.
Grierson, J., Smith, A. & von Doussa, H.
(2008) Community Attitudes to Sex on
Premises Venues and Their Patrons. XVII
International AIDS Conference. Mexico City.
Grierson, J., Smith, A. & von Doussa, H.
(2008) Trajectories of Sex On Premises
Visits: A systematic contribution to targeting
health promotion to gay and bisexual men.
XVII International AIDS Conference. Mexico
City, Mexico.
Grierson, J., Smith, A. & von Doussa,
H. (2008) Walking After Midnight:
Trajectories of Sex On Premises Visits: A
systematic contribution to targeting health
promotion to gay and bisexual men. ASHM
Conference. Perth, Australia.
Grierson, J., Thorpe, R., Pitts, M.,
Hughes, T., Saxton, P., Smith, J., Smythe,
E. & Thomas, M. (2008) Being HIV
Positive in Aotearoa/New Zealand: A Two
study comparison 2001-2007. ASHM
Conference. Perth, Australia.
Grierson, J., Thorpe, R., Pitts, M., Hughes,
T., Saxton, P., Smith, J., Smythe, E. &
Thomas, M. (2008) Living with HIV
in Aotearoa/New Zealand: A two study
comparison 2001-2007. XVII International
AIDS Conference. Mexico City.
Hillier, L. & Mitchell, A. (2008) Research
to policy and practice: the case study
of same sex attracted young people in
Victoria, Australia European Association for
Research into Adolescence Turin, Italy.
Hillier, L. (2008) From Margins to
mainstream: 5th World Conference on
the promotion of mental health and the
prevention of mental and behavioural
disorders. Melbourne.
Hudson, J., Prestage, G., Weerakoon, P. &
Lee, G. (2008) The m2m study: Exploring
the locations where married men have
sex with men. 18th World Congress of
the World Association for Sexual Health.
Sydney.
Imrie, J., Prestage, G. & Pitts, M. (2008)
The feasibility of a national gay men’s
internet-based cohort and prospective
behavioural surveillance platform in
Australia - What are the issues? 20th
Annual ASHM Conference 2008. Perth,
Australia.
Jin, F., Bradley, J., Slavin, S., Ellard,
J., Grulich, A. & Prestage, G. (2008)
Renewing the Seroconversion Study. 20th
Australia.
Jin, F., Prestage, G., Imrie, J., Zablotska,
I., Donovan, B., Templeton, D., Mindel,
A., Cunningham, A., Kaldor, J. & Grulich,
A. (2008) Herpes simplex virus type 1
(HSV-1) as a risk factor for HIV infection.
Jin, F., Prestage, G., Zablotska, I., Imrie,
J., Crawford, J., Kaldor, J. & Grulich,
A. (2008) The role of risk reduction
behaviours in HIV acquisition in gay men.
Jin, J., Crawford, J., Prestage, G.,
Zablotska, I., Imrie, J., Kaldor, J. &
Grulich, A. (2008) Risk reduction patterns
of unprotected anal intercourse: relative
risk for HIV acquisition in the Health in
Men (HIM) Study. 20th Annual ASHM
Conference 2008. Perth, Australia.
Jin, J., Prestage, G., Mao, L., Imrie, J.,
Kippax, S., Kaldor, J. & Grulich, A. (2008)
Sexual partner’s age as a risk factor for HIV
seroconversion in the Health in Men (HIM)
Study. 20th Annual ASHM Conference
2008. Perth, Australia.
Leonard, W., Mitchell, A. & Davis, S.
(2008) Coming Forward - Strategies
for addressing the underreporting of
homophobic violence and domestic
partner abuse by gay, lesbian, bisexual,
transgender and intersex people. Inaugural
Australasian Human Rights and Policing
Conference. Sofitel, Melbourne.
McDonald, K. (2008) The impact of stigma
on HIV-positive mothers in Australia.
Conference poster. XVII International AIDS
Conference. Mexico.
McNally S. (2008) Lessons from a
Community Based Liver Clinic for
CALD Communities 6th Australasian
Viral Hepatitis Conference, Brisbane,
Queensland
Parkhill, N. & Prestage, G. (2008) Illicit
drug use, intensive sex partying and HIV:
what we know, what we have done and
what we need to do. XVII International
AIDS Conference 2008. Mexico City,
Mexico.
Pitts, M. & Grierson, J. (2008)
Constructing and Evolving Communities:
Responding to HIV/AIDS Research Needs
in the Third Decade. 3rd International
Conference on Interdisciplinary Social
Sciences. Prato, Italy
Pitts, M. (2008) Growing old disgracefully
with HIV (Invited paper). ASHM
Conference. Perth Convention Centre.
Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
Pitts, M. (2008) The Australian Experience
Integrating Cervical Cancer Prevention
Programs. AOGIN 2008 Seoul; The 3rd
Biennial Conference of Asia Oceanic
Research organization on Genital
Infections and Neoplasia. Sheraton Grande
Walkerhill Hotel, Seoul, Korea.
Pitts, M., Couch, M., Croy, S., Mulcare, H.
& Mitchell, A. (2008) Health and wellbeing
of transgender people in Australia and
New Zealand. XVII International AIDS
Conference. Mexico City.
Poynten, I., Jin, F., Prestage, G., Mao,
L., Kippax, S., Kaldor, J. & Grulich, A.
(2008) Non-occupational post exposure
prophylaxis against HIV (NPEP) and
subsequent HIV infection in homosexual
men: Final data from the HIM cohort. 20th
Australia.
continued
Prestage G, Poynten M, Jin F, Imrie J,
Kippax S, Donovan B, Kaldor, J. & Grulich,
A. (2008) Willingness to participate
in trials of rectal microbicides among
HIV-negative gay men in Sydney. 4th
International AIDS Society Conference
on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and
Prevention. Sydney.
Prestage, G. (2008) Older gay men and
risk. 20th Annual ASHM Conference
Prestage, G., Hudson, J., Bradley, J.,
Corrigan, N., Down, I., Grulich, A. &
McInnes, D. (2008) Gay men who engage
in group sex are at increased risk of HIV
infection and onward transmission: Data
from the Three or More Study. 20th Annual
ASHM Conference 2008. Perth, Australia.
Prestage, G., Hudson, J., Down, I.,
Corrigan, N., McInnes, D., Bradley, J. &
Grulich, A. (2008) Gay men who engage
in group sex are at increased risk of
HIV infection and onward transmission:
data from the three or more study. XVII
International AIDS Conference 2008.
Prestage, G., Jin, F., Imrie, J., Zablotska,
I., Kippax, S., Kaldor, J. & Grulich, A.
(2008) Illicit drug use and risk of HIV
seroconversion among gay men in Sydney:
Data from the HIM cohort. 20th Annual
Prestage, G., Jin, F., Kippax, S., Zablotska,
I., Imrie, J., Kaldor, J. & Grulich, A.
(2008) Illicit drug use and risk of HIV
seroconversion among gay men in
Sydney: data from the HIM cohort. XVII
Prestage, G., Kippax, S., Jin, F., Frankland,
A., Imrie, J., Grulich, A. & Zablotska, I.
(2008) Age and sexual behaviour among
gay men in Sydney, Melbourne, and
Brisbane. 20th Annual ASHM Conference
Richters, J., Ferris, J., Pitts, M., Shelley, J.,
Simpson, J., Ryall, R. & Smith, A. (2008)
Who’s cheating? - Agreements about sexual
exclusivity and subsequent concurrent
partnering in Australian couples: The
Relationships [Poster]. Australasian Sexual
Health Conference. Perth Convention
Shelley, J., Ferris, J., Smith, A., Pitts,
M., Richters, J. & Simpson, J. (2008)
Changes in lifetime probability of abortion
for Australian women Results from the
Relationships [Poster]. Australasian Sexual
Health Conference. Perth Convention
Smith, A. M. A., Grierson, J. & von
Doussa, H. (2008) I met him at the candy
store: Community attitudes to sex on
premises venues and their patrons. 20th
annual ASHM conference. Perth, Western
Australia.
Smith, A. M., Pitts, M., Richters, J.,
Shelley, J., Simpson, J., Ferris, J. A.
& Ryall, R. (2008) Circumcision in
Australia: further evidence on its effects
on sexual health and wellbeing Australian
National
Dowsett, G. (2008) ‘Diversification
of desire or bicuriously yours: the
disintegration of the ‘/’ in heterosexual/
homosexual’. conference ‘QUENCH:
to satisfy a thirst-a weekend of queer
thinking’. Adelaide, South Australia.
Dowsett., G. (2008) panel member: HIV
is on the Rise! - presented by Gay Men’s
Health, SA. QUENCH: to satisfy a thirst-a
weekend of ‘queer thinking. Adelaide,
South Australia.
Smith, A. M., Pitts, M., Richters, J.,
Shelley, J., Simpson, J., Ferris, J. A.
& Ryall, R. (2008) Who’s cheating?
Agreements about sexual exclusivity
and subsequent concurrent partnering
in Australian couples: The Australian
Ferris, J. (2008) MI data analysis:
Imputing missing data from the Australian
Relationships using Multiple Imputation
methods [Poster]. Australian Statistical
Conference 2008 (ASC2008).
Templeton, D., Jin, F., Mao, L., Prestage,
G., Donovan, B., Imrie, J., Kippax, S.,
Kaldor, J. & Grulich, A. (2008) Reduced
risk of HIV seroconversion among
circumcised homosexual men who
report a preference for the insertive role
in anal intercourse. 20th Annual ASHM
Conference 2008. Perth, Australia.
Flood, M. (2008) Involving Men in Efforts
to End Violence Against Women. Domestic
Violence Network Forum, Eastern Suburbs
Domestic Violence Network. Sydney.
Wallace, J., McNally, S. & Pitts, M. (2008)
“It might open up a can of worms”: How
service providers and policy makers view
needle and syringe program legislation in
Australia. 10th UK International Hepatitis
C Conference. Derby, UK.
Wallace, J., McNally, S. & Richmond, J.
(2008) Putting the chronic into hepatitis
B; Keynote Presentation. 6th Australasian
Viral Hepatitis Conference, Brisbane,
Queensland
Zablotska, I., Crawford, J., Imrie, J.,
Prestage, G., Jin, F., Grulich, A. &
Kippax, S. (2008) Increasing prevalence
of unprotected anal intercourse with
serodiscordant casual partners among HIVnegative and positive gay men in Sydney
Australia: no evidence of ‘bug chasing.’
Zablotska, I., Imrie, J., Prestage, G.,
Frankland, A., Grulich, A. & Kippax, S.
(2008) Current care and support needs of
HIV-positive gay men: What factors limit
access to available services? 20th Annual
Zaidi Urmi, A., Prestage, G. & BundeBirouste, A. (2008) Assessment of stigma,
discrimination and violence associated
with the disclosure of HIV positive status:
service providers’ perspective. XVII
Ferris, J. (2008) Multi-state modelling
in R: A stochastic approach to modelling
pregnancy outcomes. Australian Statistical
Conference 2008 (ASC2008).
Flood, M. (2008) The Good, the Bad,
and the Ugly: Men, masculinities, and
crime prevention. Invited address.
Masculinities and Crime Seminar. Institute
of Criminology, University of Sydney.
Grierson, J. (2008) Findings from the HIV
Futures New Zealand 2 [Mate _raikore a
muri ake nei (Tuarua)] Survey- Wellington
briefing. Wellington, New Zealand.
Grierson, J. (2008) Gay Men’s Lives
Positive Lives (Invited Plenary). AFAO HIV
Educators Conference - ‘Gay Men’s Lives’.
Wollongong, New South Wales.
Grierson, J. (2008) Male to male sex in the
Asia pacific region (Invited presentation).
Everyday Lives: The 10th Social Research
Conference on HIV, Hepatitis C and
Related Diseases. University of New South
Wales, Sydney
Grierson, J. (2008) Researching with HIV
Positive Communities, Paper given to the
Faculty of the Department of Epidemiology
and Medical Statistics. Sun Yat Sen
University. Guangzhou, China.
Hillier, L. (2008) How can research into
homophobia, address the problem for same
sex attracted youth? Keynote Address.
That’s so gay. NSW Anti homophobia
Interagency Conference. Sydney
Hillier, L. (2008) Outsmarting
homophobia. That’s so gay. NSW Anti
homophobia Interagency Conference.
Sydney
Hurley, M. (2008) Activating the
Internet (Presentation). AFAO HIV
Educators Conference - ‘Gay Men’s Lives’
Hurley, M. (2008) Assett-based Health
Promotion (Invited Presentation).
Queensland Association of Healthy
Communities. Brisbane.
Hurley, M. (2008) Gay and Lesbian writing
and publishing in Australia 1995-2001
(Invited Presentation). ‘The Queer Canon’,
Australian Literary Studies seminar.
University of Queensland.
Hurley, M. (2008) HIV on the Rise Panel
(Invited Panellist) Quench-Queer Thinkers
Programme, Feast Festival. Adelaide,
South Australia.
Hurley, M. (2008) Jan McKemmish.
(Conference presentation). Creativity and
Uncertainty annual conference. University
of Technology, Sydney, Australian
Association of Writing Programs.
Hurley, M. (2008) Sex, Health and Gay
Socialities (Invited Plenary). AFAO HIV
Educators Conference - ‘Gay Men’s Lives’.
Hurley, M. (2008) Things we know
about the lives of queers in Australia
(Presentation). Quench-Queer Thinkers
Programme, Feast Festival. Adelaide,
South Australia.
Pitts, M. & Kaldor, J. (2008) Sexual Health
Promotion. (Invited paper.) Aboriginal
Health Worker Forum on Sexual Health
and Blood Borne Virus Health Promotion.
Gold Coast, Queensland.
Power, J., McNair, R. & Carr, S. (2008)
‘Absent sexual scripts: lesbian and
bisexual women’s knowledge and attitudes
regarding safer sex and sexual health
information’. The Australian Sociological
Conference. Melbourne.
Prestage, G. (2008) People living with
HIV/AIDS research priorities. Australian
Federation of AIDS Organisations National
Forum on HIV Infections. Gold Coast,
Queensland.
Other presentations
Grierson, J. (2008) Findings from the
HIV Futures New Zealand 2 [Mate
_raikore a muri ake nei (Tuarua)] SurveyChristchurch briefing. Christchurch, New
Zealand.
Grierson, J. (2008) Findings from the HIV
Futures New Zealand 2 [Mate _raikore a
muri ake nei (Tuarua)] Survey- HIV Futures
New Zealand 2 Report launch. Auckland,
New Zealand.
Grierson, J. (2008) Invited speakerACCESS Youth Networks’ Round table
Forum on HIV/AIDS - The Political
Dimensions of a Lethal Epidemic at the
Australian Institute of International Affairs.
Melbourne.
Grierson, J. (2008) Invited speaker- VAC/
GMHC panel discussion following the
screening of No Magic Bullet at the
Melbourne Queer Film Festival. Melbourne.
Hurley, M. (2008) Leadership (Invited
Presentation). NAPWA Leadership
Workshop. Sydney.
Hurley, M. (2008) Living, loving and
having sex. HIV and gay men’s health
(Invited Presentation). HIV Training Day.
Gay Men’s Health and Department of
Health, South Australia.
Hurley, M. (2008) The current situation
(Presentation). Positive Life Board Advisory
Group. Sydney.
Pitts, M. (2008) Community Perceptions of
HPV. HPV Vaccine Forum: Cervical Cancer
Not Yet Beaten. BIO 21 Molecular Science
& Biotechnology Institute, 30 Flemington
Rd, Parkville, AOGIN.
Pitts, M. (2008) Getting an ARC Grant:
Knowing How. UNSW Discovery Project
information session. University of New
South Wales.
Pitts, M. (2008) The Role of Social
Research in Australia’s HIV response.
Study Visit to Australia by H.E. Mr Truong
Vinh Trong Deputy Prime Minister of
Vietnam to review Australia’s response to
HIV and drug use. Melbourne.
Pitts, M. (2008) The Value of Longitudinal
Cohort Studies. Andrology Australia
Longitudinal Study Stakeholder forum.
Government House, Melbourne.
Pitts, M. (2008) TranZnation: A report on
the health and wellbeing of transgender
people in Australia and New Zealand;
presentation. Ministerial Advisory
Committee on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,
Transgender and Intersex Health and
Wellbeing meeting. Department of Human
Services, Melbourne.
Prestage, G. & Imrie, J. (2008) Planning
a national gay men’s internet-based cohort
study. Australian Federation of AIDS
Organisations Annual General Meeting.
Sydney.
continued
Prestage, G. (2008) Group sex and risk
among gay men - TOMS. Committee
on AIDS Strategy Health Promotion
Subcommittee. Sydney.
Prestage, G. (2008) Group sex and risk
among gay men - TOMS. Metropolitan Gay
Men’s Interagency Workshop. Sydney.
Prestage, G. (2008) High risk gay men
- sexpigs and party boys. Committee
on AIDS Strategy Health Promotion
Subcommittee. Sydney.
Prestage, G. (2008) Illicit drug use among
gay men. NSW HIV Think Tank. Sydney.
Prestage, G. (2008) Serosorting among
gay men. AIDS Council of NSW Gay Men’s
Education Team Meeting. Sydney.
Prestage, G. (2008) Serosorting among
gay men. AIDS Council of NSW Staff
Workshop. Sydney.
Prestage, G. (2008) Survey planning and
questionnaire design. AIDS Council of
NSW Staff Workshop. Sydney.
Prestage, G. (2008) Trends in illicit drug
use and risk among gay men. Queensland
Health, Queensland Forum on Injecting
Drug Use. Brisbane.
Prestage, G. (2008) Trends in risk
behaviour among gay men. AIDS Council
of NSW Big Day In. Sydney.
Prestage, G. (2008) Trends in risk
behaviour among gay men. Queensland
Association for Healthy Communities
Annual Sexual Health Forum. Brisbane.
Prestage, G. (2008) Young gay men research findings. AIDS Council of NSW
Fun and Esteem Project. Sydney.
Prestage, G., Zablotska, I., Imrie, J., Pitts,
M. & Grulich, A. (2008) Trends in HIV
prevalence among gay men in Brisbane,
Melbourne and Sydney Australian
Federation of AIDS Organisations National
Forum on HIV Diagnoses Among Gay Men/
Men Who Have Sex With Men. Sydney.
Prestage, G., Zablotska, I., Imrie, J., Pitts,
M. & Grulich, A. (2008) Trends in drug use
among gay men in Brisbane, Melbourne
and Sydney Australian Federation of AIDS
Organisations National Forum on HIV
Diagnoses Among Gay Men/Men Who
Have Sex With Men. Sydney.
Prestage, G. (2008) Age-trends in HIV
prevalence among gay men. NSW HIV
Think Tank. Sydney.
Prestage, G. (2008) Estimating populations
of gay men and HIV prevalence. NSW HIV
Think Tank. Sydney.
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