National Condom Day (NCD) is an annual health initiative. The campaign falls on February 14 Valentine's Day, an ideal time to encourage condom use when love and lust are in the air. NCD serves to remind people about the risks of sexually transmissible infections (STIs) and unplanned pregnancies, when people are celebrating romance, passion, love, lust and intimacy.

The 2010-11 Annual Report is now available for download.

HIV is still here.

In keeping with the international theme 'Getting to Zero', SH&FPA will continue to liaise with organisations to support efforts to reduce the burden of HIV and AIDS.

While we applaud the recent fall in the number of people dying of AIDS-related illnesses to 1.8 million, from 2.2 million in the mid 2000s (UNAIDS, 2011); we must be mindful of the continued toll that HIV related stigma, unequal access to antiretroviral therapy and gender inequality has on the world's most vulnerable populations: women and children.

Australia’s strong political, scientific and civil society commitment to ending the HIV epidemic both nationally and throughout the Asia Pacific region are among reasons for selection of Melbourne as host for the XX International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2014) 29 November, Geneva, Switzerland.

Wednesday 30^th November 2011

The Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (HLF4) in Busan, 29 November to 1 December 2011, is a crucial point in multilateral negotiations on international aid and development cooperation which started at the first High level Forum in Rome back in 2003.

According to the UN Population Fund the world’s population reached the staggering figure of 7 billion on October 31^st 2011. This is in part due to an increase in the average lifespan from 48years in the early 1950’s to 68years in 2010 (The Lancet, October 2011).