Social scientist Dr Lucy Sullivan reviews the Kirby Institute’s recent 144-page Annual Surveillance Report 2013 on HIV, viral hepatitis and sexually-transmitted infections (STIs) in Australia. The institute between 1986 and 2011 was known as the National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research. In April 2011, on the organisation’s 25th anniversary, it was renamed the Kirby Institute in honour of former High Court judge Michael Kirby. It employs approximately 200 researcher…
