Thousands of Australians unwittingly contracted HIV and hepatitis C before donated blood was routinely tested. Could a new Senate inquiry mean fairer compensation?
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An infection control expert explains why sharing your razor, towel or toothbrush isn’t such a great idea.
Proposals in NSW to force someone who spits at or bites a frontline worker to be tested for HIV and other blood-borne viruses are a real problem - for workers and the public.
Organs from gay men or injecting drug users, often rejected for transplants, could safely be used, so long as donors test negative for infections such as HIV, and hepatitis B and C.
Why is it only some viruses are transmissible by blood, and how does the virus actually move from person to person?
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Infectious Diseases Fellow, Monash University
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Infectious diseases and general physician, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
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Sexual health physician, epidemiologist, researcher. (President-elect and vice-president Australasian Society of HIV, Viral Hepatitis and Sexual Health Medicine), UNSW
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PhD candidate, University of Sydney
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Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences., University of Melbourne; HIV Clinical Nurse Consultant with Bolton Clarke, Board Member Australasian Society for HIV, Viral Hepatitis and Sexual Health Medicine (ASHM), The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Director of Evidence Integration, University of Sydney
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Professor Emerita, Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith University
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Professor of Epidemiology, UNSW
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Associate Professor, Public Health Ethics, School of Population Health, UNSW