Sexual health physician and senior researcher, UNSW
Dr Nick Medland has more than 20 years experience in HIV clinical care in Australia and South East Asia. He works clinically as a sexual health physician at Royal Melbourne Hospital and Melbourne Sexual Health Centre.
He has a PhD in HIV biomedical prevention and is a National Health and Medical Research Council research fellow at the Kirby Institute for Infection and Immunity in Society at the University of NSW. He is the vice-president of the Australasian Society for HIV, Viral Hepatitis and Sexual Health Medicine (ASHM), the co-chair of the Australasian Sexual Health Alliance (ASHA) and is on the executive committee of the Chapter of Sexual Health Medicine of the Australasian College of Physicians.
He worked for 6 years in senior positions for US Government HIV treatment programs in Vietnam and has an interest in research and programs in HIV treatment and prevention in resource limited settings.
Australia will never be HIV-free if access to prevention requires a medicare card
Jan 23, 2019 12:56 pm UTC| Health Law
Australia aims to virtually eliminate HIV transmission by 2022, according to the health ministers new national HIV strategy. This ambitious goal has been made possible by biomedical HIV prevention, a new and highly...