The Art of AIDS Prevention: Cultural Responses to HIV/AIDS in Australia and the United States
About the Researchers
 Dr Paul Sendziuk teaches Australian History at The University of Adelaide, Australia. He has published extensively on the topic of Australia's response to AIDS from both national and comparative perspectives. His book, Learning to Trust: Australian Responses to AIDS (2003), was short-listed for the 2004 Human Rights Award for Non-Fiction (presented by Australia's Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission), and remains the most comprehensive and authoritative text on this subject. Writing in the Medical Journal of Australia (vol. 181, no. 3, 2004), one reviewer noted that "the book will assist governments, policymakers and community advocates to develop and implement strategies and policies that reproduce sustainable declines in infection rates and increased quality of life for people affected by AIDS". Dr Neal Blewett, former Federal Minister for Health and architect of Australia's response to AIDS, remarked that "in the breadth of its sympathies, the sophistication of its conceptual approach and the focus on the working out of policies on the ground, it is the best national study I have read" (Australian Book Review, June/July 2004).
Paul has undertaken previous research on American cultural responses to AIDS, including interviews with visual artists. Interviews and archival research formed the basis of five articles that were published in A&U, a nationally-circulated magazine for arts professionals, health workers and people living with HIV/AIDS. In recognition of Paul's expertise and contribution to the field, he has been invited to write encyclopaedia entries about AIDS for the Oxford Companion to Australian Politics, and Historical Encyclopaedia of Western Australian, and to present papers in Australia, Canada and the United States.
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