Zoom - Tuesday 18^th May 2021 at 6:30pm AEST

Join us for an informative, virtual clinical meeting with three expert speakers, who will discuss the clinical management of sexual dysfunction in women and transgender men.

Speakers: Dr Lesley Yee; Associate Professor Katherine Brown; and Dr Fabiola Martin

Register your attendance by Monday, 17th May 2021.  For more information see the flyer​​

In our March newsletter, we asked our members and key stakeholders in the HIV sector to nominate topics to form the program for HIV & Wellness Workshop.

The topic nominated are:

1. Stigma & discrimination
2. Ageing & related comorbidities
3. Social isolation in the ageing HIV+ Population
4. Chemsex - medication adherence, higher risks of infection, harm minimization tactics vs abstinence
5. Covid vaccine & HIV
6. Polypharmacy 
7. Mental health & HIV
​8. Accessing HIV care & support in regional areas

Thank you for your input and stay tuned for final program and registration coming soon.

SHSQ will provide 5 scholarships for full registrations ($330.00) to attend the virtual Australasian Sexual Health and HIV&AIDS Conferences from 6th to 9th September 2021. For further information visit our website. You must be a Far North Queensland Registered Nurse to be considered.

The SHSQ Conference Scholarship will provide financial assistance for registrations for four (4) members. General registration is $380 and Nurses, Allied health, Medical collage trainees, Pharmacists registration is $330.   For further information visit our website​. APPLY NOW!

The Society's members, Dr Graham Neilsen, Dr Stuart Aitken and Dr Fiona Bisshop have drafted this Position Statement on Family Court of Australia Re Imogen Judgment. The Society welcomes any comments or queries from our members on this statement before it is sent to stakeholders and published. Please send feedback to the Secretariat by COB on Tuesday the 4th of May.

The SWITCH Grants program supports organisations during World Hepatitis Day that are making a difference in their local areas through projects, activities, or events that help their communities thrive.    For further information visit the Hepatitis QLD website​​.

The Australasian Viral Hepatitis Conference is a multi-day conference for the dissemination and presentation of new and innovative research findings and better management across the Australasian viral hepatitis sector. Through this forum, the event will the health workforce, government and community to work towards the elimination of hepatitis B and hepatitis C and support the communities living with these conditions in Australia, New Zealand and the Asia and Pacific regions.

To be COVID-Safe, the conference will have an innovate format, presented through hubs in Brisbane on Sunday 30th of May at Sofitel Central and Sydney on Monday 31st May and Tuesday 1st June at Masonic Centre.  Day rates are available. For further information visit the conference website​​.

The Australian Professional Association for Trans Health, will be holding their Biennial AusPATH Conference from 5th to the 7th August 2021, at Double Tree by Hilton on the Esplanade at Darwin, Northern Territory. For further information visit the AusPATH Conference website​​.