Matt McDonell speaks with Kim Green from FHI360, a non-profit human development organisation dedicated to improving lives in lasting ways by advancing integrated, locally driven solutions.

Loti speaks of homophobic bullying in schools where a recent study has found that teachers are often the root cause of school-based bullying from sexuality.

Matt McDonell speaks with Daisy Nakato from the Women’s Organization Network for Human Rights Advocacy.  She is a passionate advocate for the basic rights of sex workers in Uganda.

Brendan Bale spoke with 'Transmissions: Archiving HIV/AIDS – Melbourne 1979-2014' co-curator Dr Russell Walsh about his current exhibition at the University of Melbourne.

State health ministers David Davis (VIC) and Jillian Skinner (NSW) joined Professor Sharon Lewin Local Co-Chair of AIDS 2014 to announce the Legacy Statement of AIDS 21014.

As Australia’s only Gay & Lesbian radio station JOY 94.9 prepares to cross live to 20thInternational AIDS Conference AIDS 2014, we are joined in the studio by international HIV agitator, AIDS activist and award winning columnist Mark S. King. His blog “My Fabulous Disease” provides up-to-date commentary on the global HIV response.  Diagnosed HIV positive in 1985, Mark’s openness about...

Victoria is the only State in Australia to have a specific law criminalising the transference of HIV. Section 19A of the Crimes Act 1958 (Vic) establishes the criminal offence of ‘intentionally causing a very serious disease’ – with ‘very serious disease’ defined exclusively to mean HIV infection. The offence carries a maximum penalty of up...

Earlier this week the Federal Health Minister, The Hon. Peter Dutton MP, accompanied by Victoria’s Minister for Health David Davis, launched the National HIV Strategy for 2014-2017. Amongst the highlights were new arrangements for dispensing HIV medications and the potential for Australia to soon see “Self HIV Test Kits” on the shelves of your local chemist....

AIDS 2014 is the largest conference ever to be staged in Australia and it’s coming to Melbourne, July 20-25.  Today on Word For Word, Dean Beck speaks to the CEO of the Melbourne Convention Bureau (MCB) Karen Bolinger and the Chief Executive of the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC), Peter King. Seventeen years ago...

Victoria’s Health Minister the Hon. David Davis joins Dean Beck to discuss the latest HIV infection data for 2013. Last week Victoria’s Department of Health revealed that 303 people were diagnosed HIV positive in 2013.  This represents a 16% increase on the 2012 figures.  Such high figures have not been seen since the early 1990′s....