The 2012 International Microbicides Conference attracted a lot of media interest. Here you'll find media coverage of the Conference, such as interviews and articles, as well as articles written by some of the Conference's media scholarship students.
TV
ABC News 24
Weekend Breakfast
Hosted by Andrew Geoghegan and Miriam Corowa, covering the latest news from around the globe, with in-depth analysis and lively interviews. Interview with Professor John Kaldor
ABC News 24
The World
National and international news featuring reports from the ABC's network of international correspondents, offering a forum for extended news stories, interviews and insights from around the world. Interview with Professor Salim S. Abdool Karim.
ABC 1
7pm News
Daily headline news with interviews live from the International Microbicides Conference.
Watch coverage of M2012 on the 7pm News.
Channel 7
Weekend Sunrise - 28 April 2012
Australia's biggest breakfast tv show aired a documentary piece about the development of the science of HIV medication, with interviews by delegates live from the conference.
Radio
The Rainbow Report
Wednesday, 10 April 2012
Saturday, April 14
ABC Radio National - Life Matters
Presenter: Natasha Mitchell
Interviewees: Dr Carl Dieffenbach and Milly Katana
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
They're being described as 'the most important innovation in reproductive health since the Pill', they're called
microbicide and they're aimed at providing potentially life-saving protection from HIV and other STIs.
Print
Gay News Network
Friday, 6 March 2012
Some of the world's leading HIV experts will be in Sydney next month for a major conference looking at how newly created pharmacologic agents known as microbicides could potentially change the face of HIV prevention, particularly in areas such as southern Africa with high rates of HIV/AIDS.
Sydney Star Observer
Andrew M. Potts
Wednesday, 11 April 2012
The past 18 months have seen important developments in new HIV prevention technologies, organisers of the Seventh International Conference on Microbicides (M2012) say. The biennial conference, to be held at the Sydney Convention Centre, April 15 - 18, focuses on developments in microbicides and oral chemoprophylaxis, also known as Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), for HIV prevention.
There is a growing realization that there is a significant issue of HIV acquisition through anal intercourse not only for men who have sex with men (MSM) who are clearly very visible HIV high risk group but increasingly for women who may be exposed to the virus through anal intercourse with their male partners. Also in recent studies, most people (men and women) who practice anal intercourse reported using some kind of a lubricant (such as gel, cream, or saliva among others).
Citizen News Service
Bobby Ramakant
Monday, 16 April 2012
"It is high time that anal health [and hygiene] comes out of the closet" said Dr Ross Cranston, Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh, USA. Dr Cranston was referring to the multitude of anal health complications people practicing receptive anal intercourse are likely to be dealing with in their lives and very little quality care and products that exist to relieve them. Dr Cranston was speaking at the International Microbicides Conference (M2012) in Sydney, Australia.
Zimbabwe Herald
Paidamoyo Chipunza
Monday, 16 April 2012
Microbicides researchers from across the globe are gathered here in Sydney, Australia. Zimbabwean researchers are expecting to learn advanced techniques in preventing HIV transmission in women. The Seventh International Conference is being held under the theme: From Discovery to Delivery.
NAM - AIDS Map
Gus Cairns
Monday, 16 April 2012
A requirement that all participants take hormonal contraceptives may have been what led to the disappointing failure of a study of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) targeted at single women, the International Microbicides Conference in Sydney was told today.
Citizen News Service
Bobby Ramakant
Tuesday, 17 April 2012
Despite safe and effective HIV prevention options such as male and female condoms among others, and considerable thrust on research and development of new HIV prevention technologies, new HIV infections continue to occur daily. Milly Katana from Wisdom Centre, who has been a noted AIDS advocate, had successfully put the spotlight on making access to HIV prevention services a reality for all those in need, at the International Microbicides Conference (M2012) in Sydney, Australia. Incidentally the theme of the conference is "From Discovery to Delivery."
News-Medical.Net
Researchers, activists and funders are meeting this week in Sydney to discuss the state of HIV prevention research. The biennial International Microbicides Conference, which was opened on Sunday evening by the Honorable Tanya Plibersek MP, Australian Minster of Health, is taking place amid renewed optimism about development and delivery of new HIV prevention options with the potential for ending the AIDS epidemic, including anti-retroviral based microbicides and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP).
NAM - AIDS Map
Gus Cairns
Tuesday, 17 April 2012
A large study looking at HIV infections in gay men who are within long-term relationships with HIV-positive partners is about to start in Australia, the International Microbicides Conference in Sydney heard today.
Gay News Network
Serkan Ozturk
Tuesday, 17 April 2012
A new African-led initiative to be launched at a HIV conference in Sydney later today will ask African leaders to accept that people of diverse sexualities are engaging in anal sex and it is time to integrate messages promoting safe anal sex into HIV prevention programs.
SYS-CON Media
Tuesday, 17 April 2012
SYDNEY, April 17,2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ - Anna Forbes, a long-time microbicide advocate, has received the third
Omololu Falobi Award for Excellence in HIV Prevention Research Community Advocacy. The award was presented during the Microbicides 2012 Conference in Sydney, Australia
International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FiGO)
David Smith
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
The global healthcare community is increasingly confident that a solution to the HIV epidemic will be reached in the near future.
Researchers, activists and funders congregated for the International Microbicides Conference in Sydney, Australia and they believe that the development of anti-retroviral (ARV) therapies and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) over the last few years makes HIV prevention a reality.
News-Medical.Net
Saturday, 21 April 2012
"Although the research for new HIV prevention technologies has indeed made some progress, ... a formidable way lies ahead to find enough money to finish the research and to make 'from discovery to delivery' a reality for those in need of protecting themselves from HIV," CNS/Scoop.co.nz reports. "This issue of health financing of new HIV prevention technologies was in spotlight at the closing day plenary of the International Microbicides Conference (M2012) in Sydney, Australia," the news service adds.
THE WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN
Alexander Gambotto-Burke
Saturday, 21 april 2012
There was a mystery at the heart of an HIV conference held in Sydney this week. It centred on an abruptly aborted clinical trial conducted last year in Kenya, South Africa and Tanzania, which was intended to test the effectiveness of a new method of HIV prevention in nearly 4000 heterosexual women.
Despite positive results from other recent studies, the treatment failed to block transmission of the HIV virus. With the future of one of the most promising avenues of HIV prevention now uncertain, experts attending the 2012 International Microbicides Conference sought to find out what went wrong.
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COSMOS MAGAZINE
Tiffany Hoy
Friday, 25 May 2012
Thirty-four million people were living with HIV in 2010, according to the World Health Organisation. Of those, 1.8 million died of AIDS as a result of HIV infection - the fourth leading cause of death globally - and 2.7 million people were newly infected. And so the epidemic spreads - but scientists and advocates are hard at work to stop it. Last month delegates from around the globe met in Sydney for the 2012 Microbicides conference, to discuss exciting new methods of prevention.
