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• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• ABORIGAL GAY MEN
• KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND
• JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• "NO-ONE'S DRIVG THIS B" - QUALATIVE ANALYSIS OF PREP HEALTH PROMOTN FOR ABORIGAL AND TORR STRA ISLANR GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
• SGLE GAY ABORIGAL MEN INTERTED IN ABORIGAL DATG
• ABORIGAL GAY MEN DON'T ALWAYS GET HIV TTG BEE OF STIGMA
• RISK BEHAVUR AMONG ABORIGAL AND TORR STRA ISLANR GAY MEN: PARISONS WH OTHER GAY MEN ATRALIA
• HIV S ARE RISG AMONG STRAIGHT PEOPLE. ADVOT SAY A NEW STRATEGY IS NEEDADVOT SAY A NEW PUBLIC HEALTH MPAIGN IS NEED TO REACH POPULATN GROUPS WHERE S OF HIV ARE ON THE RISE ATRALIA.JANE COSTELLO SAYS STIGMA IS STILL A HDRANCE TO DRIVG DOWN HIV TRANSMISSN RAT AND ENURAGG MORE PEOPLE TO GET SCREENED REGULARLY. SOURCE: SUPPLIED / JANE COSTELLOKEY POTSADVOT SAY DIFFERENT STRATEGI ARE NEED TO REACH EMERGG AT-RISK GROUPS.HIV RAT ARE GROWG FASTT AMONG HETEROSEXUAL MEN AND WOMEN. THOSE WHO ARE SEXUALLY ACTIVE ARE ADVISED TO SEEK A FULL SEXUAL HEALTH SCREEN AT LEAST ONCE A YEAR.WHEN JANE COSTELLO FOUND OUT SHE HAD HIV, SHE WAS SURPRISED. AS A HETEROSEXUAL WOMAN A MONOGAMO RELATNSHIP, SHE DIDN'T THK SHE WAS AT RISK. "IF YOU HAD ASKED ME IF I WAS AT RISK OF HIV BACK THEN I WOULD HAVE SAID NO. AND I THK THAT'S WHAT A LOT OF PEOPLE STILL THK TODAY," SHE TOLD SBS NEWS.IT WAS THE EARLY 1990S AND THE FOC AT THAT TIME FOR HIV OUTREACH WAS GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN. HER PARTNER, WHO LATER BEME HER HBAND, RECEIVED A DIAGNOSIS THAT LED HER TO GET TTED. READ MORETHERE ARE FEARS THE GLOBAL RPONSE AGAST HIV IS 'SEVERE DANGER'. WHY?"IT TOOK A YEAR-AND-A-HALF FOR HIM TO BE DIAGNOSED. NOBODY THOUGHT TO TT HIM BEE AT THAT TIME WAS PREDOMANTLY GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN WHO WERE DIAGNOSED WH HIV," SHE SAID.COSTELLO IS THE CEO OF POSIVE LIFE NSW, A GROUP REPRENTG THOSE LIVG WH HIV THE STATE. THE ANISATN WORKS G A PEER MOL WHERE THOSE LIVG WH HIV ARE SUPPORTED BY OTHERS WH LIVED EXPERIENCE. "SO WE'VE GOT A DIVERSE RANGE OF PEOPLE: YOUNG HETEROSEXUAL WOMAN, HETEROSEXUAL MEN, PEOPLE OM CULTURALLY LGUISTILLY DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS," SHE SAID.HER EXPERIENCE SHOWS UP THE LATT ANNUAL DATA ON HIV RAT ATRALIA. HIV TRANSMISSN RISG AMONG WIR POPULATNCOLLECTED BY THE KIRBY INSTUTE AT UNSW, THE 2022 NUMBERS SHOW HIV SE NUMBERS ARE GROWG THE FASTT AMONG HETEROSEXUAL WOMEN AND MEN (30 PER CENT OF S), FIRST NATNS ATRALIANS, AND THOSE BORN OVERSEAS. GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN STILL ACUNT FOR THE MAJORY OF THE 555 NEW DIAGNOS OF HIV 2022, BUT OVER A 10-YEAR PERD THE SE NUMBERS HAVE CLED BY 50 PER CENT. READ MOREMORE THAN 70 PER CENT OF MIGRANT WOMEN ATRALIA SAY THEY N'T AFFORD TO SEE A DOCTORDR SKYE MCGREGOR OM THE KIRBY INSTUTE SAID THE DATA REVEALED THE NEED FOR PREVENTN STRATEGI TARGETED AT ALL POPULATNS. "THE DATA SUGGT THAT, TO ELIMATE HIV, THERE NEEDS TO BE CREASG FOC ON PREVENTN STRATEGI THAT ENPASS ALL POPULATNS, CLUDG HETEROSEXUAL MEN AND WOMEN, PARTICULARLY AS WE ALL BEG TO TRAVEL MORE FOLLOWG THE RELAXG OF COVID-19 NTROL MEASUR," SHE TOLD SBS NEWS."THIS CLUS SAFE SEX TRAVEL MPAIGNS AND REGULAR SEXUAL HEALTH CHECKS UPS WHICH CLU HIV TTG."ATRALIA MOVG CLOSER TO 2030 TARGETDARRYL O'DONNELL, THE CEO OF ADVOCY GROUP HEALTH EQUY MATTERS, SAID ATRALIA'S SUCCS RCG OVERALL TRANSMISSN RAT THE LAST IS PRAISEWORTHY. "BY GLOBAL STANDARDS, AND ALSO WH ATRALIA'S HISTORY, THE ARE THE LOWT (ANNUAL) NUMBERS WE'VE SEEN TO DATE," HE SAID. HE SAID MONORG WHERE TRANSMISSN IS GROWG WILL BE KEY TO ACHIEVG THE 2030 GOAL SET BY UNAIDS TO ACHIEVE A 90 PER CENT RCTN HIV FECTNS AND AIDS-RELATED ATHS PARED TO THE 2010 BASELE. "SO WE ARE VERY EXCED AND PLEASED TO BE TRACKG TOWARDS VERY LOW RAT OF HIV TRANSMISSN. BUT THIS IS AN FECT DISEASE, SO YOU N'T STOP WORKG TOWARDS ELIMATN UNTIL 'S OVER. IF WE STOP OUR WORK, THE EPIMIC WILL TAKE OFF AGA."INCREASED ACCS TO HIV TREATMENT KEY TO RCED TRANSMISSNHE SAYS CREASED ACCS TO THE PRCRIPTN ANTIRETROVIRAL TABLET MEDITN PREP (PRE-EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS) HAS BEEN KEY TO THE SUCCS ACHIEVED DRIVG DOWN S OVER THE LAST .THE TREATMENT IS SUBSIDISED BY THE ERNMENT THROUGH THE PHARMACTIL BENEFS SCHEME. ADVOT HAVE ALSO BEEN SUCCSFUL HELPG TO BRG ABOUT A ERNMENT-FUND SCHEME ACROSS ATRALIAN STAT AND TERRORI, WHICH ALLOWS THOSE WHOUT MEDIRE TO ACCS HIV TREATMENT EE OF CHARGE OR AT LOW ST THROUGH ERNMENT-FUND HOSPAL PHARMACI.THE ANNOUNCEMENT WAS MA BY THE FERAL ERNMENT ON 1 DECEMBER 2021, WH ATRALIAN STAT AND TERRORI PLETG THE ROLLOUT OF THE SCHEME THIS YEAR.COSTELLO, WELED THE CREASED ACCS, SAYG IS CRIL TO ACHIEVG THE 2030 GOAL TO "END THE AIDS EPIMIC". "IT WILL MAKE A HUGE DIFFERENCE BEE WE KNOW THAT IF PEOPLE ARE ON MEDITN THEY N MATA AN UNTECTABLE VIRAL LOAD AND THAT'S REALLY, REALLY IMPORTANT [WHEN TO ENDG HIV TRANSMISSN]."STIGMA STILL A BARRIERCOSTELLO SAYS HER OWN LIVED EXPERIENCE WH HIV AND THE STORI OF OTHERS THE POSIVE LIFE WORK UNRLE THE IMPORTANCE OF BUILDG TST AND RAPPORT WH TARGET POPULATNS. SHE SAID ANY SUCCSFUL PUBLIC HEALTH MPAIGN WOULD NEED TO E IMAGERY AND LANGUAGE THAT REACHED THE TARGET DIENCE. "I SEE A LOT OF YOUNG WOMEN HERE AND THEY SAY THAT EVEN WHEN THEY GO TO SEXUAL HEALTH CLICS, ALL OF THE RMATN ON THE WALLS AND PAMPHLETS DON'T SPEAK TO THEM."COSTELLO REMEMBERS BEG GIVEN THE PROGNOSIS THE 1990S THAT SHE WOULD ONLY LIVE FOR THREE YEARS. WH THE VELOPMENT OF HIV TREATMENTS, SHE HAS NOW BEEN LIVG WH THE DISEASE FOR 29 YEARS.READ MORETHE US HAS BEE THE LATT NATN TO REMOVE S 'GAY BLOOD BAN'. WILL ATRALIA FOLLOW?SHE SAID STIGMA STILL EXISTED AND THAT ULD IMPACT THE EQUENCY WH WHICH PEOPLE SOUGHT SEXUAL HEALTH SCREENGS, AS WELL AS HOW QUICKLY THEY GOT ONTO THE MEDITN. "SOMETHG THAT WE OFTEN HEAR OM PEOPLE WHO ARE NEWLY DIAGNOSED: I DIDN'T THK I WAS AT RISK," COSTELLO SAID."GETTG A HEALTH SCREENG IS ABOUT KNOWG WHAT YOUR HEALTH SUATN IS. THAT EMPOWERS YOU TO MAKE REALLY GOOD CISNS ABOUT YOUR HEALTH OUT AND YOUR HEALTH GOG FORWARD."SHE SAID THOSE WHO ARE SEXUALLY ACTIVE SHOULD BE HAVG A FULL SEXUAL HEALTH SCREEN AT LEAST ONCE A YEAR. IT'S REMEND EVERY THREE MONTHS FOR GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN. WHAT WOULD A SUCCSFUL AWARENS MPAIGN LOOK LIKE?THE ANISATN IS ABOUT TO LNCH A NEW HEALTH MPAIGN FEATURG THE SLOGAN 'N'T PASS ON', WHICH IS SPIRED BY SUCCSFUL MPAIGNS UNTRI LIKE THE UK AND CANADA. "WE WORK WH PREVENTN MSAGG. WE CERTALY WORK AROUND TTG AND TREATMENT AS WELL," COSTELLO SAID."BUT YOU'VE ALSO GOT TO FACTOR STIGMA AND DISCRIMATN. I DON'T THK WE'VE ACHIEVED A GREAT AL HOW HIV IS SEEN THE WIR POPULATN; AND THE STIGMA THAT STILL EXISTS AROUND GETTG A NEW HIV DIAGNOSIS."SHE SAID THE 1987 GRIM REAPER AD THAT WAS BROADST ON ATRALIAN TELEVISN ED FEAR AS A TACTIC, WHICH END UP FURTHER STIGMATISG THOSE LIVG WH HIV. COSTELLO SAID EFFECTIVE MSAGG TODAY WOULD NEED TO E MORE EMPOWERG LANGUAGE."IF WE'RE TALKG ABOUT A BROAR NVERSATN, WE NEED TO REALLY TALK ABOUT NORMALISG, FOR WANT OF A BETTER EXPRSN, HIV. WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT SEXUAL HEALTH AS SIMPLY ANOTHER WAY OF LOOKG AFTER YOURSELF AND YOUR OWN HEALTH," SHE SAID."PEOPLE NEED TO BE REALLY PROACTIVE ABOUT SEXUAL HEALTH, BUT ALSO ABOUT THEIR HEALTH MORE BROADLY. IF WE N SOMEHOW RPORATE SEXUAL HEALTH TO AN OVERALL HEALTH AND WELLBEG APPROACH, I THK THAT WOULD HAVE BETTER OUT."ABORIGAL AND TORR STRA ISLANRS ANOTHER AT-RISK GROUPHIV DIAGNOS AMONG ABORIGAL AND TORR STRA ISLANR PEOPL HAVE CREASED OVER THE PAST YEAR, WH 25 DIAGNOS 2022.BUNDJALUNG MAN ROBERT MONAGHAN IS THE MANAGER OF ABORIGAL AND TORR STRA ISLANR HEALTH REARCH AT THE KIRBY INSTUTE. HE SAID EVEN THOUGH THE TOTAL NUMBER WAS LOW, WAS IMPORTANT TO ENSURE DIDN'T NTUE TO RISE. "WE NEED TO GET AHEAD OF THIS. IT ULD BE VERY TASTROPHIC IF THIS GETS OUT [SPREADS]," HE TOLD SBS NEWS."EVEN THOUGH THE NUMBERS ARE LOW, ULD BE VERY DIRE THE ABORIGAL MUNY. ESPECIALLY GIVEN THE NATURE OF ABORIGAL PEOPLE, LIVG VERY CLOSE TO PROXIMY TO ONE ANOTHER REMOTE MUNI; THE TTG FACILI AREN'T THE SAME AS THE METROPOLAN AREAS." ROBERT MONAGHAN SAYS ACTN NEEDS TO BE TAKEN TO ENSURE HIV TRANSMISSN DON'T RISE ABORIGAL AND TORR STRA ISLANR MUNI. SOURCE: SUPPLIED / KIRBY INSTUTEMONAGHAN SAID EFFORTS NEED TO FOC ON REACHG ABORIGAL AND TORR STRA ISLANRS THE 16-29 AGE GROUP."THEY TEND TO BE LS NCERNED ABOUT THEIR HEALTH. WE NEED TO GET TO THEM EARLY," HE SAID.MONAGHAN SAID ANY PUBLIC HEALTH MSAGG WOULD NEED TO RCE STIGMA, NOT ADD TO . HE ALSO DISMISSED THE FEAR TACTICS ED THE 1987 GRIM REAPER AD. "I THK 2023 WE'VE MOVED ON A LOT OM THE GRIM REAPER APPROACH [AND] SRG THE LIVG DAYLIGHTS OUT OF PEOPLE. WE'RE MORE ACCEPTG OF PEOPLE LIVG WH HIV. WE'RE MORE ACCEPTG OF GENR DIVERSY. SERVIC WANT TO ENGAGE. BUT IS HOW TO ENGAGE — THAT IS THE CHALLENGE."ADDNAL REPORTG BY LUCY MURRAYSHARE8 M READPUBLISHED 21 JULY 2023 6:19AMBY BIWA KWANSOURCE: SBS NEWSTAGSHEALTHATRALIASHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHARETOPICS

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual.

ABORIGAL GAY MEN

Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay 2021. Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league.

Bisexual men are perceived to sound more mascule than men who are straight, acrdg to a study of Atralian subjects.Amics at the Universy of Sydney pared the voic of gay, straight and bisexual men a study volvg 160 people.In the rearch led by clil psychologist Jam Morandi, people were reced to analyse the voic of 60 men, 20 of whom were gay, 20 straight and 20 bisexual. They were then asked to rate the men on their sexual orientatn g a sle om zero (exclively heterosexual) to 10 (exclively homosexual).Listeners were also asked to rate each man’s perceived level of femy or masculy the voic on a siar sle.The men volved the study were asked to rerd themselv on a smartphone recg the first two l of the Atralian natnal anthem.Voice sampl were then modified to remove any background noise while volume levels were ma the same to ensure nsistency.Rults om the study showed listeners uld distguish between gay and straight men’s voic wh an accuracy of 62 per cent, apparently nsistent wh prev rearch.However, the study participants uld not terme any differenc between bisexual and straight men’s voic wh any gree of accuracy.

The thors said their rearch showed bisexual men’s voic were perceived as beg more exclively attracted to women pared wh both gay and straight men’s voic.Bisexual men’s voic were rated as more mascule than both gay and straight men’s voic.Rearchers claimed the abily to intify a man’s bisexual inty om his voice alone uld have cril social implitns such as helpg to rce feelgs of alienatn.‘Voice may unter visibily many bisexuals feel’An abstract of the study, tled Can listeners tect if a man is bisexual om his voice alone, reads: “The prent study examed whether bisexual men n be intified om their voic ak to how gay men n be intified on their voice alone.“If this is the se, voice may be an important target of discrimatn on the one hand but may also unter the visibily many bisexuals feel (if their bisexual inti n be apprehend by their voice alone, whout explic disclosure required).“The fdgs may also she light on whether bisexual male voic, like gay male voic, differ om straight voic terms of their genr non-nformy – a qutn that to date has not been examed.”But amics noted the rearch was limed on the grounds all men who participated the study are Atralian, which may not be reflected among wir cultur.And the thors nced the study did not ntrol for the rerdg environment or microphone-to-mouth distance, which uld have affected the qualy of the voice sampl.The thors said the fdgs suggted that while the voic of bisexual men the sample were perceived as more mascule and attracted to femal, listeners did not associate this imprsn wh bisexualy.As a rult, while bisexual men may appear to be at lower risk of facg voice-based intifitn and discrimatn than gay men, they may often be mistaken as beg straight.The study was published the Journal of Sex Rearch.

KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND

-- Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach major Amerin men's profsnal sports to publicly e out as gay, tellg he ma the cisn bee he didn't want to hi who he is any longer and to possibly spire others siar suatns.It's a cisn and move that drew praise and support om owner Shad Khan, who was a vol and emphatic supporter of a cy ordance that expand protectns on the grounds of sexual orientatn, genr inty and genr exprsn."I don't want to feel like I have to thk about anymore," Maxen said the piece published Thursday afternoon. Outsi lebacker Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay and to play a game 2021.The Associated Prs ntributed to this report. Lbian, gay, bisexual, queer, transgenr and tersex Aborigal people reprent diversy wh the already diverse Aborigal culture.

LGBQTI = Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Queer, Transgenr and = Gay, Lbian, Bisexual, Transgenr, Intersex and was origally a rogative term for 'gay', now beg reclaimed by some gay men, lbians, bisexuals and transgenr people as a self-affirmg umbrella term.

" [5]The Tiwi Islands, about 80 kms north of Darw, are home to Atralia’s largt per pa transgenr populatn, wh lols claimg that up to 5% of approximately 3, 000 rints intify as transgenr, gay, lbian or bisexual. [6]Challeng for transgenr, gay & lbian Aborigal peopleThe biggt challeng are racism, sexual health, liftyle, suici, mental problems, self-teem and inty, but also changg one's name and a lack of support [3]. To survive, young homosexual Aborigal people sometim date the oppose sex to hi their te sexual orientatn.

JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

[7]"Beg gay a regnal, ral, or even remote town that don’t feel acceptg or safe n make you feel ashamed of who you are, " says Mark Nannup, a Yamatji man om Meekatharra. [7]It's an experience Allan Clarke, a gay Muwari man who grew up Bourke, has been through. "It wasn’t until I moved to Sydney that I found eedom among the ncrete towers and the lovg embrace of olr stnch gay black men, women and sistergirls.

"I thk if you add homophobia for GLBTIQ people that is jt another extra burn that people have to bear and somethg they have to rpond to their liv, " explas Steven Ross, a gay Aborigal man [2] to go to the male ward of a health clic or hospal mak sistergirls unfortable as they might meet other male relativ of their extend fai. — Steven Ross, gay Aborigal man [2]In 2010 film-makers Andy Canny and Donna McCm shot Eye documentg the sistergirls on Tiwi Island.

"NO-ONE'S DRIVG THIS B" - QUALATIVE ANALYSIS OF PREP HEALTH PROMOTN FOR ABORIGAL AND TORR STRA ISLANR GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN

— Lillian [3]TipThere is a Facebook support group lled Sistergirls Rabow helps Aborigal LGBQTI people who are at risk of suici and to ease the burn of youth Koori Gras (which started 2018) offers vibrant glimps to the shared stori and history of Aborigal people's gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr and queer Aborigal Corporatn wants to improve visibily of the Aborigal LGBTQ+ muny via a work of sharg, support and nnectn. It supports, enurag and empowers people to take ntrol of their own Brother boys yarn about their experiencKai Clancy, 18, and Dean, 50, first told the world about their liv a vio screened durg the 20th Internatnal AIDS Conference held Melbourne July well-known gay & lbian Aborigal peopleSome gay Aborigal artists clu Dty Dean, Karla Dickens, Jenny Fraser, Clt Lgard, Arone Meeks, Clton Na, Peter Wapl-Crowe and Jefey Samuels. Jack Charl is a gay actor.

Kerrianne Cox "chose" to be homosexual bee after beg abed as a child she didn't tst men anymore [10] Bent, who -found the group Tiddas, is a gay sger and Enoch is a gay playwright (e.

Black Diggers, The Story of the Miracl at Cookie's Table), son of an Aborigal man and a whe Fraiser has been workg wh Aborigal Media var paci, cludg film, televisn and Page, the mil heart of Bangarra Dance Theatre, me out as beg gay durg the season of his play Page Snrs is om the Killre clan of the Gundjmara natn south wt Victoria and lls himself "a proud Wiradjuri man". Jam is also a member of the Sydney Convicts, Atralia’s first gay gby team.

SGLE GAY ABORIGAL MEN INTERTED IN ABORIGAL DATG

[11]Jack Charl is a gay actor, former hero addict and jailbird, member of the Stolen Generatns, and Aborigal activist. However, ’s all gay men and guys who have sex wh other guys that are most impacted by HIV, and that clus Aborigal men. Sexually active gay and bisexual guys need to tt for HIV and STIs four tim a year.

ABORIGAL GAY MEN DON'T ALWAYS GET HIV TTG BEE OF STIGMA

It’s n by iendly, profsnal and non-judgmental gay peers and your entire appotment will take no more than 30 mut, cludg the time tak to get the rult of the rapid HIV tt. Aborigal gay men, you know, beg pally wh Aborigal heterosexual. of whether you're homosexual, heterosexual, black, whe or brdled, pecially.

I thk the Aborigals who are gay need that support system,. Openly gay have no problems but once they leave the.

RISK BEHAVUR AMONG ABORIGAL AND TORR STRA ISLANR GAY MEN: PARISONS WH OTHER GAY MEN ATRALIA

He’s Barbie’s gay bt iend. The film won’t say , but a post-creds punchle about Ken’s handwrg, plete wh hearts and stars surroundg his name, tells what we need to heavily implied nature of Ken’s gayns Toy Story 3 harkens back to Hollywood’s tradnal gay bt iend-type characters. In the Hays Co era, explic referenc to homosexualy weren’t allowed, so characters like Van Buren (Frankl Pangborn) 1937’s Easy Livg, Kip (David Wayne) 1949’s Adam’s Rib, or Addison (Gee Sanrs) 1950’s All About Eve stead were imbued wh effemate characteristics, offerg a glimpse outsi of heteronormativy whout explicly beg of the characters were the same—some were tty, others sweet.

But each of the gay bt iends was trsilly fed by their relatnships wh their straight iends. Des later, 2010, the gay bt iend was all the rage; Teen Vogue even went so far as to proclaim the GBF as the summer’s mt-have accsory. But unlike the first half of the 20th century, today’s cema, the GBF is allowed to be openly gay.

HIV S ARE RISG AMONG STRAIGHT PEOPLE. ADVOT SAY A NEW STRATEGY IS NEEDADVOT SAY A NEW PUBLIC HEALTH MPAIGN IS NEED TO REACH POPULATN GROUPS WHERE S OF HIV ARE ON THE RISE ATRALIA.JANE COSTELLO SAYS STIGMA IS STILL A HDRANCE TO DRIVG DOWN HIV TRANSMISSN RAT AND ENURAGG MORE PEOPLE TO GET SCREENED REGULARLY. SOURCE: SUPPLIED / JANE COSTELLOKEY POTSADVOT SAY DIFFERENT STRATEGI ARE NEED TO REACH EMERGG AT-RISK GROUPS.HIV RAT ARE GROWG FASTT AMONG HETEROSEXUAL MEN AND WOMEN. THOSE WHO ARE SEXUALLY ACTIVE ARE ADVISED TO SEEK A FULL SEXUAL HEALTH SCREEN AT LEAST ONCE A YEAR.WHEN JANE COSTELLO FOUND OUT SHE HAD HIV, SHE WAS SURPRISED. AS A HETEROSEXUAL WOMAN A MONOGAMO RELATNSHIP, SHE DIDN'T THK SHE WAS AT RISK. "IF YOU HAD ASKED ME IF I WAS AT RISK OF HIV BACK THEN I WOULD HAVE SAID NO. AND I THK THAT'S WHAT A LOT OF PEOPLE STILL THK TODAY," SHE TOLD SBS NEWS.IT WAS THE EARLY 1990S AND THE FOC AT THAT TIME FOR HIV OUTREACH WAS GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN. HER PARTNER, WHO LATER BEME HER HBAND, RECEIVED A DIAGNOSIS THAT LED HER TO GET TTED. READ MORETHERE ARE FEARS THE GLOBAL RPONSE AGAST HIV IS 'SEVERE DANGER'. WHY?"IT TOOK A YEAR-AND-A-HALF FOR HIM TO BE DIAGNOSED. NOBODY THOUGHT TO TT HIM BEE AT THAT TIME WAS PREDOMANTLY GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN WHO WERE DIAGNOSED WH HIV," SHE SAID.COSTELLO IS THE CEO OF POSIVE LIFE NSW, A GROUP REPRENTG THOSE LIVG WH HIV THE STATE. THE ANISATN WORKS G A PEER MOL WHERE THOSE LIVG WH HIV ARE SUPPORTED BY OTHERS WH LIVED EXPERIENCE. "SO WE'VE GOT A DIVERSE RANGE OF PEOPLE: YOUNG HETEROSEXUAL WOMAN, HETEROSEXUAL MEN, PEOPLE OM CULTURALLY LGUISTILLY DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS," SHE SAID.HER EXPERIENCE SHOWS UP THE LATT ANNUAL DATA ON HIV RAT ATRALIA. HIV TRANSMISSN RISG AMONG WIR POPULATNCOLLECTED BY THE KIRBY INSTUTE AT UNSW, THE 2022 NUMBERS SHOW HIV SE NUMBERS ARE GROWG THE FASTT AMONG HETEROSEXUAL WOMEN AND MEN (30 PER CENT OF S), FIRST NATNS ATRALIANS, AND THOSE BORN OVERSEAS. GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN STILL ACUNT FOR THE MAJORY OF THE 555 NEW DIAGNOS OF HIV 2022, BUT OVER A 10-YEAR PERD THE SE NUMBERS HAVE CLED BY 50 PER CENT. READ MOREMORE THAN 70 PER CENT OF MIGRANT WOMEN ATRALIA SAY THEY N'T AFFORD TO SEE A DOCTORDR SKYE MCGREGOR OM THE KIRBY INSTUTE SAID THE DATA REVEALED THE NEED FOR PREVENTN STRATEGI TARGETED AT ALL POPULATNS. "THE DATA SUGGT THAT, TO ELIMATE HIV, THERE NEEDS TO BE CREASG FOC ON PREVENTN STRATEGI THAT ENPASS ALL POPULATNS, CLUDG HETEROSEXUAL MEN AND WOMEN, PARTICULARLY AS WE ALL BEG TO TRAVEL MORE FOLLOWG THE RELAXG OF COVID-19 NTROL MEASUR," SHE TOLD SBS NEWS."THIS CLUS SAFE SEX TRAVEL MPAIGNS AND REGULAR SEXUAL HEALTH CHECKS UPS WHICH CLU HIV TTG."ATRALIA MOVG CLOSER TO 2030 TARGETDARRYL O'DONNELL, THE CEO OF ADVOCY GROUP HEALTH EQUY MATTERS, SAID ATRALIA'S SUCCS RCG OVERALL TRANSMISSN RAT THE LAST IS PRAISEWORTHY. "BY GLOBAL STANDARDS, AND ALSO WH ATRALIA'S HISTORY, THE ARE THE LOWT (ANNUAL) NUMBERS WE'VE SEEN TO DATE," HE SAID. HE SAID MONORG WHERE TRANSMISSN IS GROWG WILL BE KEY TO ACHIEVG THE 2030 GOAL SET BY UNAIDS TO ACHIEVE A 90 PER CENT RCTN HIV FECTNS AND AIDS-RELATED ATHS PARED TO THE 2010 BASELE. "SO WE ARE VERY EXCED AND PLEASED TO BE TRACKG TOWARDS VERY LOW RAT OF HIV TRANSMISSN. BUT THIS IS AN FECT DISEASE, SO YOU N'T STOP WORKG TOWARDS ELIMATN UNTIL 'S OVER. IF WE STOP OUR WORK, THE EPIMIC WILL TAKE OFF AGA."INCREASED ACCS TO HIV TREATMENT KEY TO RCED TRANSMISSNHE SAYS CREASED ACCS TO THE PRCRIPTN ANTIRETROVIRAL TABLET MEDITN PREP (PRE-EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS) HAS BEEN KEY TO THE SUCCS ACHIEVED DRIVG DOWN S OVER THE LAST .THE TREATMENT IS SUBSIDISED BY THE ERNMENT THROUGH THE PHARMACTIL BENEFS SCHEME. ADVOT HAVE ALSO BEEN SUCCSFUL HELPG TO BRG ABOUT A ERNMENT-FUND SCHEME ACROSS ATRALIAN STAT AND TERRORI, WHICH ALLOWS THOSE WHOUT MEDIRE TO ACCS HIV TREATMENT EE OF CHARGE OR AT LOW ST THROUGH ERNMENT-FUND HOSPAL PHARMACI.THE ANNOUNCEMENT WAS MA BY THE FERAL ERNMENT ON 1 DECEMBER 2021, WH ATRALIAN STAT AND TERRORI PLETG THE ROLLOUT OF THE SCHEME THIS YEAR.COSTELLO, WELED THE CREASED ACCS, SAYG IS CRIL TO ACHIEVG THE 2030 GOAL TO "END THE AIDS EPIMIC". "IT WILL MAKE A HUGE DIFFERENCE BEE WE KNOW THAT IF PEOPLE ARE ON MEDITN THEY N MATA AN UNTECTABLE VIRAL LOAD AND THAT'S REALLY, REALLY IMPORTANT [WHEN TO ENDG HIV TRANSMISSN]."STIGMA STILL A BARRIERCOSTELLO SAYS HER OWN LIVED EXPERIENCE WH HIV AND THE STORI OF OTHERS THE POSIVE LIFE WORK UNRLE THE IMPORTANCE OF BUILDG TST AND RAPPORT WH TARGET POPULATNS. SHE SAID ANY SUCCSFUL PUBLIC HEALTH MPAIGN WOULD NEED TO E IMAGERY AND LANGUAGE THAT REACHED THE TARGET DIENCE. "I SEE A LOT OF YOUNG WOMEN HERE AND THEY SAY THAT EVEN WHEN THEY GO TO SEXUAL HEALTH CLICS, ALL OF THE RMATN ON THE WALLS AND PAMPHLETS DON'T SPEAK TO THEM."COSTELLO REMEMBERS BEG GIVEN THE PROGNOSIS THE 1990S THAT SHE WOULD ONLY LIVE FOR THREE YEARS. WH THE VELOPMENT OF HIV TREATMENTS, SHE HAS NOW BEEN LIVG WH THE DISEASE FOR 29 YEARS.READ MORETHE US HAS BEE THE LATT NATN TO REMOVE S 'GAY BLOOD BAN'. WILL ATRALIA FOLLOW?SHE SAID STIGMA STILL EXISTED AND THAT ULD IMPACT THE EQUENCY WH WHICH PEOPLE SOUGHT SEXUAL HEALTH SCREENGS, AS WELL AS HOW QUICKLY THEY GOT ONTO THE MEDITN. "SOMETHG THAT WE OFTEN HEAR OM PEOPLE WHO ARE NEWLY DIAGNOSED: I DIDN'T THK I WAS AT RISK," COSTELLO SAID."GETTG A HEALTH SCREENG IS ABOUT KNOWG WHAT YOUR HEALTH SUATN IS. THAT EMPOWERS YOU TO MAKE REALLY GOOD CISNS ABOUT YOUR HEALTH OUT AND YOUR HEALTH GOG FORWARD."SHE SAID THOSE WHO ARE SEXUALLY ACTIVE SHOULD BE HAVG A FULL SEXUAL HEALTH SCREEN AT LEAST ONCE A YEAR. IT'S REMEND EVERY THREE MONTHS FOR GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN. WHAT WOULD A SUCCSFUL AWARENS MPAIGN LOOK LIKE?THE ANISATN IS ABOUT TO LNCH A NEW HEALTH MPAIGN FEATURG THE SLOGAN 'N'T PASS ON', WHICH IS SPIRED BY SUCCSFUL MPAIGNS UNTRI LIKE THE UK AND CANADA. "WE WORK WH PREVENTN MSAGG. WE CERTALY WORK AROUND TTG AND TREATMENT AS WELL," COSTELLO SAID."BUT YOU'VE ALSO GOT TO FACTOR STIGMA AND DISCRIMATN. I DON'T THK WE'VE ACHIEVED A GREAT AL HOW HIV IS SEEN THE WIR POPULATN; AND THE STIGMA THAT STILL EXISTS AROUND GETTG A NEW HIV DIAGNOSIS."SHE SAID THE 1987 GRIM REAPER AD THAT WAS BROADST ON ATRALIAN TELEVISN ED FEAR AS A TACTIC, WHICH END UP FURTHER STIGMATISG THOSE LIVG WH HIV. COSTELLO SAID EFFECTIVE MSAGG TODAY WOULD NEED TO E MORE EMPOWERG LANGUAGE."IF WE'RE TALKG ABOUT A BROAR NVERSATN, WE NEED TO REALLY TALK ABOUT NORMALISG, FOR WANT OF A BETTER EXPRSN, HIV. WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT SEXUAL HEALTH AS SIMPLY ANOTHER WAY OF LOOKG AFTER YOURSELF AND YOUR OWN HEALTH," SHE SAID."PEOPLE NEED TO BE REALLY PROACTIVE ABOUT SEXUAL HEALTH, BUT ALSO ABOUT THEIR HEALTH MORE BROADLY. IF WE N SOMEHOW RPORATE SEXUAL HEALTH TO AN OVERALL HEALTH AND WELLBEG APPROACH, I THK THAT WOULD HAVE BETTER OUT."ABORIGAL AND TORR STRA ISLANRS ANOTHER AT-RISK GROUPHIV DIAGNOS AMONG ABORIGAL AND TORR STRA ISLANR PEOPL HAVE CREASED OVER THE PAST YEAR, WH 25 DIAGNOS 2022.BUNDJALUNG MAN ROBERT MONAGHAN IS THE MANAGER OF ABORIGAL AND TORR STRA ISLANR HEALTH REARCH AT THE KIRBY INSTUTE. HE SAID EVEN THOUGH THE TOTAL NUMBER WAS LOW, WAS IMPORTANT TO ENSURE DIDN'T NTUE TO RISE. "WE NEED TO GET AHEAD OF THIS. IT ULD BE VERY TASTROPHIC IF THIS GETS OUT [SPREADS]," HE TOLD SBS NEWS."EVEN THOUGH THE NUMBERS ARE LOW, ULD BE VERY DIRE THE ABORIGAL MUNY. ESPECIALLY GIVEN THE NATURE OF ABORIGAL PEOPLE, LIVG VERY CLOSE TO PROXIMY TO ONE ANOTHER REMOTE MUNI; THE TTG FACILI AREN'T THE SAME AS THE METROPOLAN AREAS." ROBERT MONAGHAN SAYS ACTN NEEDS TO BE TAKEN TO ENSURE HIV TRANSMISSN DON'T RISE ABORIGAL AND TORR STRA ISLANR MUNI. SOURCE: SUPPLIED / KIRBY INSTUTEMONAGHAN SAID EFFORTS NEED TO FOC ON REACHG ABORIGAL AND TORR STRA ISLANRS THE 16-29 AGE GROUP."THEY TEND TO BE LS NCERNED ABOUT THEIR HEALTH. WE NEED TO GET TO THEM EARLY," HE SAID.MONAGHAN SAID ANY PUBLIC HEALTH MSAGG WOULD NEED TO RCE STIGMA, NOT ADD TO . HE ALSO DISMISSED THE FEAR TACTICS ED THE 1987 GRIM REAPER AD. "I THK 2023 WE'VE MOVED ON A LOT OM THE GRIM REAPER APPROACH [AND] SRG THE LIVG DAYLIGHTS OUT OF PEOPLE. WE'RE MORE ACCEPTG OF PEOPLE LIVG WH HIV. WE'RE MORE ACCEPTG OF GENR DIVERSY. SERVIC WANT TO ENGAGE. BUT IS HOW TO ENGAGE — THAT IS THE CHALLENGE."ADDNAL REPORTG BY LUCY MURRAYSHARE8 M READPUBLISHED 21 JULY 2023 6:19AMBY BIWA KWANSOURCE: SBS NEWSTAGSHEALTHATRALIASHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHARETOPICS

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