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Open AccessEngaging Stigmatised Communities in Australia with Digital Health Systems: Towards Data Justice in Public Health
In 2018, following government policy changes to Australia’s national electronic health record system, ‘My Health Record’, consumer advocates—including organisations representing people living with HIV, people ...
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Engaging with Omission: Promoting Concern for Gender and Sexuality Diverse People in SDG 5 and Beyond
Since their adoption in 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals including Goal 5 have been criticized for their failure to recognize diversity of experience and expression with respect to gender, sex, and sexu...
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Queerying Notions of “Difference” Among Two Generations of Australians Who Do Not Identify Heteronormatively
Non-normative genders and sexualities are often framed in research and popular discourse in terms of difference. This descriptor not only signals their departure from social norms, it also promotes the assumption...
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‘A Reckoning That Is Long Overdue’: Reconfiguring the Work of Progressive Sex Advice Post #MeToo
Sex advice has featured in popular media from the earliest periodicals to the newest digital forms. While the content has changed in line with social attitudes, men’s sexual agency continues to be privileged, ...
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Shitty Media Men
This chapter analyzes media responses to the Shitty Media Men list, an open-source document briefly circulated on the Internet in late 2017 that enabled women to anonymously report instances of sexual miscondu...
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Engaging Migrant and Refugee Young People with Sexual Health Care: Does Generation Matter More Than Culture?
Young people from migrant and refugee backgrounds in Australia are recognised as under-utilising mainstream sexual and reproductive health care. A qualitative study was undertaken in Sydney, Australia, to expl...
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“So Much Is at Stake”: Professional Views on Engaging Heterosexually Identified Men who Have Sex with Men with Sexual Health Care in Australia
Australian HIV prevention, testing, and treatment services are well-established for men who have sex with men (MSM) who identify as gay or bisexual. However, the sexual health needs of heterosexually identifie...
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Beyond Compliance Checking: A Situated Approach to Visual Research Ethics
Visual research methods like photography and digital storytelling are increasingly used in health and social sciences research as participatory approaches that benefit participants, researchers, and audiences....
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Pills, Providers and Partners: Exploring Trust Among Serodiscordant Couples in Australia
Running counter to the oft-cited phenomenon of a “decline in public trust” in late modernity, couples of mixed HIV status are being invited to invest an increasing degree of trust in the potential of antiretro...
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Bridging the HIV Divide: Stigma, Stories and Serodiscordant Sexuality in the Biomedical Age
At a time when advances in biomedicine have rendered people with HIV non-infectious under certain conditions, much public discourse on HIV remains stuck in a paradigm of ‘risk’, which does little to lessen the...
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“There’s More to You Than Just This Virus”: Young People Growing Up with Perinatally-Acquired HIV in Australia
This chapter explores how young people growing up with HIV in Australia see themselves and experience their situation, living with a condition that is not only stigmatized but also rare among children in the d...
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Is Sexual Racism Really Racism? Distinguishing Attitudes Toward Sexual Racism and Generic Racism Among Gay and Bisexual Men
Sexual racism is a specific form of racial prejudice enacted in the context of sex or romance. Online, people use sex and dating profiles to describe racialized attraction through language such as “Not attract...
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The New Cultural Politics of the Waiting Room: Straight Men, Gay-Friendly Clinics and ‘Inclusive’ HIV Care
Community-based health services which provide HIV care in Australia are typically known as ‘gay-friendly’, but little is known about what this might mean for engaging the broader diversity of people with HIV, ...
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Open AccessAt the coalface and the cutting edge: general practitioners’ accounts of the rewards of engaging with HIV medicine
HIV has become a chronic manageable infection in the developed world, and early and lifelong treatment has the potential to significantly reduce transmission rates in the community. A skilled and motivated HIV...
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Patterns of Alcohol and Other Drug Use Associated with Major Depression Among Gay Men Attending General Practices in Australia
Our aim was to clarify the role of alcohol and other drug (AOD) use in major depression among gay men attending general medical practices. A secondary analysis was conducted on survey data collected from 531 g...
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Open AccessExperiences in managing problematic crystal methamphetamine use and associated depression in gay men and HIV positive men: in-depth interviews with general practitioners in Sydney, Australia
This paper describes the experiences of Australian general practitioners (GPs) in managing problematic crystal methamphetamine (crystal meth) use among two groups of male patients: gay men and HIV positive men.
