STI and BBV Quarterly Forums

Once every 3 months the Sexual Health and Blood-borne Virus Program facilitates a forum on sexual health, sexually transmissible infections (STIs) and blood-borne viruses (BBVs).

Forum participants come from a wide range of government, non-government and private organisations and work in a variety of roles including clinical, health promotion, disease control, education, and research.

The forum is designed to provide STI and BBV updates, professional development and networking opportunities.

Certificates of attendance will be provided if required.

Next forum

The second quarter forum will not be going ahead because of the SiREN Symposium (external site).

The next STI and BBV quarterly forum will be held on Wednesday 11 September 2024. The agenda will be uploaded closer to the date.

Video conferencing

MS Teams

The link will be provided on the agenda that is uploaded onto this page and sent out in an email to the distribution list 1-2 weeks before each forum. If you’d like to be added to the distribution list, please email SHBBVP@health.wa.gov.au 

Past forums and presentations

Disclaimer: Every effort has been made to ensure that the information provided in the epidemiology and surveillance presentation was accurate at the time of the quarterly forum. However, infectious disease notification data are continuously updated and subject to change. Presentations delivered at the quarterly forum are the views and project findings of the individual and/or other organisations, and do not necessarily reflect WA Department of Health policy.

Wrap it up 2023 (29 November 2023)

• PrEPARE Project 2023: updates on trends and preferences for different HIV and STI prevention methods – Dr James MacGibbon – CSRH, UNSW (PDF 605KB)
• Hepatitis C Virus Care Capability in Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment (HCVAT) Project – Tabitha McCallum – WANADA (PDF 278KB)
• SHBBVP: Resource Update – Mathew Bacon – SHBBVP, CDCD (PDF 3MB)
• Talking to your kids about sexual health: Parent Focus Group – Kelly Mennen (SWPHU, WACHS) & Aimee Rendell (WAAC) (PDF 2MB)
• Peer-led Services at Peer Based Harm Reduction WA – Peta Gava – Peer Based Harm Reduction WA (PDF 4MB)

STI and BBV Virtual Van: The Great Australian Road Trip (30 August 2023)

• Beyond the C: Hepatitis C elimination in your practice – Adi Hoare – ASHM (PDF 3MB)
• CALD community knowledge perceptions of hepatitis B stigma and discrimination –   Loren Brener – CSRH (PDF 333KB)
• Collaborative outreach testing for men in the Kimberley – Jeff Turner – Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Services (PDF 1MB)
• Enablers and barriers to heptatitis C treatment uptake – Lise Lafferty – CSRH UNSW (PDF 396KB)
• MCDCs outreach syphilis point of care testing pilot program – Joanne ODea – MCDC (PDF 987KB)
• Social and care experiences during and after mpox illness a qualitative study –  Dr Anthony K J Smith – CSRH UNSW (PDF 2MB)

Mid-year updates from the field (14 June 2023)

• Supporting people living with HIV with complex needs to reduce transmission risk – Ines Bruss - ICMP, WA Department of Health (PDF 233KB)
• Strength in Solidarity – Paul Dessauer – Peer Based Harm Reduction WA (PDF 3MB)
• Hepatitis B knowledge and practices among Myanmar community in Perth- Dr Daniel Vujcich & Nang Nge Nge Phoo – Curtin University (PDF 2MB)
• HIV in 2023 (campaign) – Aimee Rendell & Steph Andrews – WAAC (PDF 3MB)

March Mix-Up (22 March 2023)

• Sharps Disposal Project – Rebecca Brown – WALGA (PDF 3MB)
• Developing Accessible Resources – Lauren Remus Short – SECCA (PDF 779KB)
• Motivate C Project – Reena D'Souza – Telethon Kids Institute (PDF 1MB)
• Australian Needle and Syringe Program Survey Data Report Update – Sue Heard – Kirby Institute, UNSW (PDF 899KB)
• Syphilis POCT Program – Dr Daniel Hunt – Derbal Yerrigan Health Service (PDF 841KB)
• This is How We Live – Carmen Gianfrancesco – CERIPH, Curtin University (PDF 1MB)

Wrap It Up (7 December 2022)

• Asian Gay Community Periodic Survey – Dr Limin Mao – Centre for Social Research in Health – UNSW (PDF 476KB)
• Improving BBV and sexual health provisions  for CALD people in WA – Dr Christine Dykstra – Royal Perth Hospital (PDF 505KB)
• Implications for the HIV response from the MIBSS survey results – Dr Daniel Vujcich – WA Sexual Health and Blood-borne Virus Applied Research and Evaluation Network (PDF 1.6MB)
• Stigma and discrimination eLearning – Diane Lloyd & Melissa Coci – Sexual Health and Blood-borne Virus Program, CDCD (PDF 644KB)
• Healthy Blood, Healthy Body Project – Dr Roanna Lobo & Adrian Simpson – WA Sexual Health and Blood-borne Virus Applied Research and Evaluation Network (PDF 2MB)

Creating Safe Spaces (Wednesday 14 September 2022)

• The Pleasure Playlist (PDF 1.24MB)
• Stigma Indicators Monitoring Project (PDF 363KB)
• YEP presents Consent (PDF 3.8MB)
• Accessible Cervical Screening Tool (PDF 1.62MB)

The Mid-year Update (Thursday 16 June 2022)

• Syphilis Project and ‘It’s Your Right’ Campaign – Leanne Myers – Peer Based Harm Reduction WA (PDF 861KB)
• World Hepatitis Day 2022 – Matthew Armstrong - HepatitisWA (PDF 1.3MB)
• Gay Community Periodic Survey – Curtis Chan – Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales (PDF 350KB)
• Antimicrobial susceptible lineages of Neisseria gonorrhoeae predominate in remote regions of Western Australia – Dr Charlene Kahler – School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Western Australia (PDF 7MB)
• 13^th Australasian Viral Hepatitis Conference 2022 Perspectives – Jude Bevan, Brent Bell and Dr Daniel Hunt – Sexual Health and Blood-borne Virus Program, HepatitisWA and Derbarl Yerrigan Health Service (PDF 660KB) 

More information

Sexual Health and Blood-borne Virus Program

8.30am – 5.00pm, Monday to Friday
Phone: 9222 2355
Fax: 9222 0227
Email: SHBBVP@health.wa.gov.au

Address:
189 Royal Street, East Perth WA 6004