Translating HIV academic research into ‘plain speak’ may have long-term health outcomes

ViiV Healthcare

10 August 2022, Melbourne: Three Australian HIV advocates all living with HIV have undertaken a Knowledge Translation project to help the Australian HIV community better understand complex health information.

Research carried out by healthcare professionals and academics can often be misinterpreted or misunderstood by the public.1Knowledge Translation (KT) projects take academic papers and translate them into resources that help people understand specific and often complicated research. Whilst KT is common practice internationally, in Australia it is mostly unknown.

The project – led by Beau Newham, Heather Ellis and Anthony McCarthy – focused on translating research on the unmet needs of people living with HIV in Australia into a series of short

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