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HIV medication

New medicines listed on the PBS

The Australian Government has decided to provide subsidised access to 48 medicines, including treatments for HIV.

Saving on prescription costs

From the Dec-Jan 2010 issue of Talkabout

Taking advantage of the PBS Safety Net Scheme can make a big difference to your yearly expenditure on medication. If you are in a relationship (de facto couple), you can reach the PBS Safety Net threshold much sooner. Lance Feeney unpacks the PBS Safety Net.

Tags: Accessing treatments, Advocacy, HIV medication, Living with HIV

HIV treatment as HIV prevention: where are we now?

From the Aug-Sep 2010 issue of Talkabout • By Andrew Grulich and Iryna Zablotska

During the last two years, there has been widely reported scientific, public health and community debate about the extent to which HIV treatment (through decreasing blood and genital fluid HIV viral load) may decrease the sexual transmission of HIV. Andrew Grulich and Iryna Zablotska discuss the evidence for HIV medicine as transmission prevention and their proposed study.

Tags: HIV medication, HIV prevention, HIV research, research study

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