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Martin Holt @martinxholt.bsky.social · 17d

The evaluation of Australia's first free national HIV self-testing project now available. With nearly 8,000 orders in the project’s first year, HIVTest.au demonstrated strong national demand for
free, direct-to-consumer HIV self-testing kits delivered by post. doi.org/10.26190/uns...

Australia’s First Free National HIV Self-Testing Service: HIVtest.au Project Evaluation 2023-24

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Martin Holt @martinxholt.bsky.social · Jul 24

New fellowship program at UNSW for international researchers whose work focuses on sustainability, prosperity, health, or social cohesion. Closes 10th August.

UNSW announces international fellowship program to attract the world’s best

The University will offer up to 12 fellowships to outstanding international researchers whose work aligns with UNSW’s key goals and strategy.

www.unsw.edu.au

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Martin Holt @martinxholt.bsky.social · Jul 7

In essence, they average the scores (take the median) from the Detailed Assessors' scores, and then add them to the average of the General Assessor scores.

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Martin Holt @martinxholt.bsky.social · Jul 7

This has come up for us too as DP applicants write their rejoinders. There is a bit of information about how a different number of assessments is handled on this page www.arc.gov.au/funding-rese...

www.arc.gov.au

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Martin Holt @martinxholt.bsky.social · Mar 17

New (open access paper): #mpox #vaccination coverage among Australian gay and bisexual men and non-binary people. 42% fully vaxxed. Lower vax levels among bi+, overseas born and in suburban/regional areas. @anthonykjsmith.bsky.social @curtisxchan.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.va...

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Tara Murphy @taramurphy.bsky.social · Feb 27

Good luck to Australian researchers waiting for the DP EoI outcomes today!

ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · Feb 27

The ARC have tweeted that they will released Discovery Projects Expression of Interest outcomes tomorrow.

Screenshot of a tweet from the ARC saying the following: "DP26 EOI applicants: tomorrow all lead CIs will receive an email with their outcomes and all applicants will be able to get their results in RMS. Due to the volume of applications, emails may be staggered throughout the day. Stay tuned for an update.".

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Martin Holt @martinxholt.bsky.social · Feb 21

New open access paper by Simin Yu assessing effects of migration status on the HIV care cascade among gay and bisexual men living with HIV in Australia. There was a lower level of treatment among recently arrived migrants, underscoring the importance of free access for all doi.org/10.1111/hiv....

Associations between country of birth, migration status and engagement in HIV care among gay and bisexual men living with HIV in Australia, 2019–2022

Background In the last decade, while HIV diagnoses have declined among Australian-born gay and bisexual men (GBM), they have declined much less among migrant GBM, with recently arrived GBM facing pa.....

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Prof Chloe Orkin @profchloeorkin.bsky.social · Feb 16

In these unthinkably dark days for global public health I’m proud to share the results of this international survey which describes the challenging and distressing experiences of clinicians in 12 countries during the 2022/23 #mpox pandemic.

eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

International healthcare workers’ experiences and perceptions of the 2022 multi-country mpox outbreak

In May 2022, the most widespread outbreak of sustained transmission of mpox outside of countries historically affected countries in Western and Central Africa occurred. We aimed to examine the persona...

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PK 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @paul.kidd.id.au · Jan 31

An NHMRC review of clinical guidelines for trans and gender diverse kids and young people has been announced, it’s a good idea. The NHMRC can be relied upon to make considered, evidence based recommendations for nationally consistent treatment guidelines that (1/n) www.health.gov.au/ministers/th...

www.health.gov.au

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · Feb 1

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.

HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻

archive.org/details/2025...

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Curtis Chan @curtisxchan.bsky.social · Jan 28

We conducted a latent class analysis of 1032 surveys from GBMSM in Australia, and found that social support, social engagement with LGBTQ+ people, and LGBTQ+ community involvement was associated with HIV testing and PrEP uptake. Available to read open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Patterns of Social Support and LGBTQ + Community Involvement Among Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men in Australia and Their Effect on HIV-Related Outcomes: A Latent Class Analysis - A...

Peer support from social networks of gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM) has been recognised as a critical driver of engagement with HIV prevention. Using data from an online cr...

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Martin Holt @martinxholt.bsky.social · Jan 30

Looking forward to hearing about and discussing #HIV prevention and ways to assess our progress with colleagues here in Auckland. I think there is still time to register and follow online www.spots.org.nz/symposium2025

SPOTS Study Aotearoa

Take the survey now.

www.spots.org.nz

Martin Holt @martinxholt.bsky.social · Jan 26

Hi Liz! Good to hear from you. I confess I’ve not been very active here but will see if that improves this year. Hope you’re well!

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Martin Holt @martinxholt.bsky.social · Dec 19

An alternative interpretation is that we age out of being queer, but I’m sticking to my generational interpretation! More of us on the way.

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Martin Holt @martinxholt.bsky.social · Dec 19

I thought it was about right. The age distribution is crazy though (1 in 10 in the youngest bracket). Wild generational change (or at least much more openness to expression) going on there!

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Martin Holt @martinxholt.bsky.social · Dec 19

More from the ABS on the release here: www.abs.gov.au/media-centre...

ABS releases first ever estimates of LGBTI+ Australians

www.abs.gov.au

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Martin Holt @martinxholt.bsky.social · Dec 19

And the answer is: 4.5% of Australians aged 16 years and over are LGBTI+, very similar to findings from NZ. www.abs.gov.au/statistics/p...

Estimates and characteristics of LGBTI+ populations in Australia, 2022

Data on gender, trans and gender diverse, sexual orientation, and people born with variations of sex characteristics

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Martin Holt @martinxholt.bsky.social · Dec 18

The Australian Bureau of Statistics is scheduled to release data on population estimates and characteristics of #LGBTI+ people in Australia at 11.30am AEDT today. Any guesses about how many of us there will be? www.abs.gov.au/release-cale...

Future releases

www.abs.gov.au

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Martin Holt @martinxholt.bsky.social · Dec 10

Preprint on levels of #mpox vaccination among Australian gay & bisexual men & non-binary people in early 2024. 54% reported any vaccination. Younger & bi+ participants, people born in Asia and Latin America, and those living outside inner city areas were less likely to be vaccinated. #sexualhealth

Mpox Vaccination Coverage Among Australian Gay and Bisexual Men and Non-Binary People: Results of Behavioural Surveillance in Early 2024

BackgroundWe examined characteristics associated with mpox vaccine uptake among gay, bisexual, queer and other men who have sex with men and non-binary people (

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Anthony K J Smith @anthonykjsmith.bsky.social · Nov 25

New open access article from our team.

Event-driven / on-demand (AKA 2-1-1) PrEP use has tripled between 2019-2023 in Australia, with 28% of gay/bi men and other men who have sex with men now using event-driven PrEP in 2023.

Read here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Martin Holt @martinxholt.bsky.social · Nov 25

Because cats (really pushing to fluff up my bsky algorithm as much as possible)

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Ben 🇵🇸 @bencriley.bsky.social · Nov 25

My masters thesis is up online to read!! If you're interested in gay stuff, AIDS memory, sex, HIV anxiety and big feelings about inaccessible/imagined histories, have a look 🙂 ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/...

Black text on a white background that says: "Benjamin Riley Memory Pill / Amnesia Pill: PrEP, AIDS Generations and Gay Sexual Imaginaries Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences The University of Sydney"

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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · Nov 25

ARC says they’ll release the Discovery Projects 2025 outcomes tomorrow.

Recently, outcomes announcements have tended to happen at/around 11am Canberra time.

My bot will pick up the announcement in RMS’s database and post immediately.

Good luck!

Screenshot of a tweet from the ARC saying they’ll announce DP25 grant outcomes tomorrow (Tuesday 26 Nov).

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Martin Holt @martinxholt.bsky.social · Nov 25

Hello all. I'm joining the great post-Twitter migration. I'm a professor of HIV prevention research at UNSW Sydney. Bear with me while I build up some content and start following interesting people.

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