Publications

  • HIV-related Legal Needs, Demographic Change, and Trends in Australia since 1992: A Review of Legal Administrative Data

    Health+Law
    2 December 2023

    Little has been understood about the legal issues, needs and access to justice for people living with HIV and viral hepatitis in Australia. This article, published in the AIDS & Behavior journal, analysed unique legal administrative data from the HIV/AIDS Legal Centre (HALC) to develop insight into the trends and types of HIV and viral hepatitis-related legal issues experienced by HALC clients, as well as how these legal issues and HALC client demographics have changed over time, from 1992 to 2020.

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  • The Legal Needs of People Living with an STI or BBV: Perspectives from a sample of the Australian Sexual Health and BBV Workforce

    Health+Law
    1 December 2023

    This article, published in the Journal of Law and Medicine, presents the first data on the incidence and impacts of unmet legal needs for those affected by a Sexually Transmissible Infection (STI) or Blood Borne Virus (BBV) in Australia using a survey administered to a sample of the Australian sexual health and BBV workforce.

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  • New Health+Law research partnership

    UTS
    13 October 2022

    Media release from the University of Technology Sydney on the launch of Health+Law.

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  • Positive Migration Guide

    HALC
    1 November 2021

    A guide to immigration for HIV positive people, their family members and others who fail the health criteria.

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Webinars

  • The changing legal needs of people with Blood-Borne Viruses

    ASHM, HALC, UTS Law
    4 July 2022

    Clinicians, support workers, peers and lawyers are often asked to support individuals living with a blood-borne virus through various legal processes, but what do these legal needs look like? How are they changing over time? What impacts do these legal needs have on people with blood-borne viruses, and which are their highest priorities?

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  • An Introduction to HIV and Migration Law in Australia

    ASHM, HALC, UTS Law, Hepatitis Australia, NAPWHA
    6 September 2021

    HALC Principal Solicitor Alexandra Stratigos and UTS Law’s Dr Anthea Vogl present an overview of migration law in Australia, the migration process for someone living with HIV, and how clinicians can support better migration outcomes for their patients.

    The forum, recorded in August 2021, offers clinicians and the broader HIV sector the opportunity to ask some of Australia’s top experts in migration law more about migration and HIV in Australia.

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“This is an exciting and important project situated at the intersection of unmet needs in the legal and health sectors. This research will have international implications by generating new knowledge about how to meet the needs of people with BBVs.”

Dr Hamish Robertson, School of Public Health and Social Work, QUT