In 2015, Pozhet conducted a survey asking heterosexual people living with HIV and their families in NSW on the following: The impact of HIV on your health Emerging issues Feedback on how to improve future service delivery The summary is now available. Many thanks to […]
Pozhet Workshop and Weekend Retreat Pozhet held our spring Retreat a few hours north of Sydney on the 17th – 19th November. Participants came from all over NSW to spend time together in a private rural setting, to make friends and to support each other. […]
Leading paediatrician, Dr Hermione Lyall of London told the British HIV Association (BHIVA) conference last week that although risk of HIV transmission when breast feeding was very low when viral load was supressed, there was not yet enough evidence to recommend “undetectable = untransmittable” (U=U). Dr Lyall recommended taking a harm reduction approach for women who wanted to breastfeed. (more…)
Most pregnant women are concerned about taking medications, particularly in the first 3 months (trimester) of a pregnancy as this is a particularly vulnerable time for the foetus. People with chronic conditions usually need to keep taking their treatments during pregnancy and it is important that they understand how the benefits balance against the risk of doing so. In high income countries such as Canada and Australia the transmission of HIV from an HIV positive woman to child is very low (less than 1%) and this is essentially due to Anti-retroviral therapy (ART). Recent research in Canada reviewed health related information from pregnant women over a period of 17 years up until 2015 and data from 214,240 pregnancies, of which 343 were HIV positive women was looked at. (more…)
