By Professor Martin Holt

Journal articles

Holt M; Lea T; Mao L; Zablotska I; Prestage G; de Wit J, 2015, 'HIV prevention by Australian gay and bisexual men with casual partners: the emergence of undetectable viral load as one of a range of risk reduction strategies.', J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr, 70, pp. 545 - 548, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/QAI.0000000000000787

Santella AJ; Schlub TE; Ooi C; Varma R; Holt M; Prestage G; Hillman RJ, 2015, 'Sexual behaviour and HIV prevention needs of men attending a suburban sex on premises venue', Sexual Health, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/SH14227

De La Mata N; Mao L; De Wit J; Smith D; Holt M; Prestage G; Wilson DP; Petoumenos K, 2015, 'Estimating antiretroviral treatment coverage rates and viral suppression rates for homosexual men in Australia', Sexual Health, 12, pp. 453 - 457, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/SH15037

Lea T; Ryan D; Prestage G; Zablotska I; Mao L; de Wit J; Holt M, 2015, 'Alcohol use among a community-based sample of gay men: Correlates of high-risk use and implications for service provision', Drug and Alcohol Review, 34, pp. 349 - 357, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dar.12234

Guy R; Prestage G; Grulich A; Holt M; Conway DP; Jamil M; Keen P; Cunningham P; Wilson DP, 2015, 'Potential public health benefits of HIV testing occurring at home in Australia', Medical Journal of Australia, 202, pp. 529 - 531, http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/mja14.01210

Newman CE; Mao L; Persson A; Holt M; Slavin S; Kidd MR; Post JJ; Wright E; De Wit J, 2015, ''Not Until I'm Absolutely Half-Dead and Have To:' Accounting for Non-Use of Antiretroviral Therapy in Semi-Structured Interviews with People Living with HIV in Australia', AIDS Patient Care and Stds, 29, pp. 267 - 278, http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/apc.2014.0301

Conway DP; Guy R; Mcnulty A; Couldwell DL; Davies SC; Smith DE; Keen P; Cunningham P; Holt M; Lockwood T; Wright S; Biggs K; Townsend J; Price A; Smith M; Koh A; Florance M; Rawlinson WR; Robertson P; Fennell M; O'Sullivan WM; Kapitanos I; Dickeson D; St Leonards A; Fernando S; Fulton R; McNally L; Wilson K; Best S; Vincini J; Land S, 2015, 'Effect of testing experience and profession on provider acceptability of rapid HIV testing after implementation in public sexual health clinics in Sydney', HIV Medicine, 16, pp. 280 - 287, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hiv.12209

Conway DP; Guy R; Davies SC; Couldwell DL; McNulty A; Smith DE; Keen P; Cunningham P; Holt M; Lockwood T; Wright S; Biggs K; Townsend J; Price A; Smith M; Koh A; Florance M; Rawlinson W; Robertson P; Fennell M; O'Sullivan M; Kapitanos I; Dickeson D; Fernando S; Fulton R; Leeman C; McNally L; Wilson K; Best S; Vincini J; Land S, 2015, 'Rapid HIV testing is highly acceptable and preferred among high-risk gay and bisexual men after implementation in Sydney sexual health clinics', Plos One, 10, pp. e0123814, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0123814

Holt M, 2015, 'Configuring the users of new HIV prevention technologies: the case of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis', Culture, Health and Sexuality, 17, pp. 428 - 439, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2014.960003

Mao L; de Wit JB; Kippax SC; Prestage G; Holt M, 2015, 'Younger age, recent HIV diagnosis, no welfare support and no annual sexually transmissible infection screening are associated with nonuse of antiretroviral therapy among HIV-positive gay men in Australia', HIV Medicine, 16, pp. 32 - 37, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hiv.12169

Murphy DA; Lea T; de Wit JBF; Ellard J; Kippax SC; Rosengarten M; Holt M, 2015, 'Interest in using rectal microbicides among Australian gay men is associated with perceived HIV vulnerability and engaging in condomless sex with casual partners: results from a national survey', Sexually Transmitted Infections, 91, pp. 266 - 268, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/sextrans-2014-051694

Holt M; Lea T; Asselin J; Hellard M; Prestage G; Wilson D; de Wit J; Stoové M, 2015, 'The prevalence and correlates of undiagnosed HIV among Australian gay and bisexual men: results of a national, community-based, bio-behavioural survey', J Int AIDS Soc, 18, pp. 20526 - 20526, http://dx.doi.org/10.7448/IAS.18.1.20526

Newman C; de Wit J; Persson AS; Holt M; Slavin S; Kidd M; Post J; Wright E; Mao L, 2015, 'Understanding concerns about HIV treatment-as-prevention among people with HIV who are not using antiretroviral therapy', AIDS and Behavior, 19, pp. 821 - 831, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10461-014-0959-9

Zablotska IB; Frankl A; Holt M; De Wit J; Brown G; Maycock B; Fairley C; Prestage G; Frankland A, 2014, 'Methodological challenges in collecting social and behavioural data regarding the hiv epidemic among gay and other men who have sex with men in australia', Plos One, 9, pp. e113167, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0113167

Holt M; Lea T; Murphy D; Ellard J; Rosengarten M; Kippax S; De Wit J, 2014, 'Australian Gay and Bisexual Men’s Attitudes to HIV Treatment as Prevention in Repeated, National Surveys, 2011-2013', PLoS One, 19, pp. e112349, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0112349

Holt M, 2014, 'Gay men's HIV risk reduction practices: the influence of 'epistemic communities' in HIV social and behavioral research', AIDS Education and Prevention, 26, pp. 214 - 223, http://dx.doi.org/10.1521/aeap.2014.26.3.214

Holt M; Hull P; Lea T; Guy R; Bourne C; Prestage G; Zablotska I; De Wit J; Mao L, 2014, 'Comprehensive testing for, and diagnosis of, sexually transmissible infections among Australian gay and bisexual men: findings from repeated, cross-sectional behavioural surveillance, 2003–2012', Sexually Transmitted Infections, 90, pp. 208 - 215, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/sextrans-2013-051294

Conway D; Holt M; McNulty A; Couldwell D; Smith D; Davies S; Cunningham P; Keen P; Guy R, 2014, 'Multi-centre evaluation of the Determine HIV Combo assay when used for point of care testing in a high risk clinic-based population', PLoS One, 9, pp. e94062-1 - e94062-8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0094062

Pitts M; Holt M; Mercer CH, 2014, 'Introduction to the special issue on the Second Australian Study of Health and Relationships', Sexual Health, 11, pp. 381 - 382, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/SH14182

Holt M, 2014, 'Sex, drugs, and HIV: Let's avoid panic', Lancet HIV, 1, pp. e4 - e5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2352-3018(14)70007-4

Holt M, 2014, 'HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis and treatment as prevention: a review of awareness and acceptability among men who have sex with men in the Asia Pacific and the Americas', Sexual Health, 11, pp. 166 - 170, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/SH13060

Holt M; Lea T; Murphy D; Ellard J; Rosengarten M; Kippax S; De Wit J, 2014, 'Willingness to use HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis has declined among Australian gay and bisexual men: results from repeated national surveys, 2011-2013', JAIDS: Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 67, pp. 222 - 226, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/QAI.0000000000000287

Lea T; Costello M; Mao L; Prestage G; Zablotska I; Ward JW; Kaldor JM; de Wit J; Holt M, 2013, 'Elevated reporting of unprotected anal intercourse and injecting drug use but no difference in HIV prevalence among Indigenous Australian men who have sex with men compared with their Anglo-Australian peers', Sexual Health, 10, pp. 146 - 155, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/SH12097

Holt M, 2013, 'Enacting and imagining gay men: the looping effects of behavioural HIV surveillance in Australia', Critical Public Health, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2013.796038

Holt M; Murphy DA; Callander D; Ellard JM; Rosengarten M; Kippax SC; de Wit J, 2013, 'HIV-negative and HIV-positive gay men's attitudes to medicines, HIV treatments and antiretroviral-based prevention', AIDS and Behavior, 17, pp. 2156 - 2161, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10461-012-0313-z

Lea T; Mao L; Bath N; Prestage G; Zablotska I; de Wit J; Holt M, 2013, 'Injecting drug use among gay and bisexual men in Sydney: prevalence and associations with sexual risk practices and HIV and hepatitis C infection', AIDS and Behavior, 17, pp. 1344 - 1351, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10461-013-0409-0

Holt M; Lee E; Prestage G; Zablotska I; de Wit J; Mao L, 2013, 'The converging and diverging characteristics of HIV-positive and HIV-negative gay men in the Australian Gay Community Periodic Surveys, 2000-2009', AIDS Care - Psychological and Socio - Medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV, 25, pp. 28 - 37, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09540121.2012.686598

Zablotska IB; Prestage GP; De Wit J; Grulich AE; Mao L; Holt M, 2013, 'The informal use of antiretrovirals for preexposure prophylaxis of HIV infection among gay men in Australia', JAIDS: Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 62, pp. 334 - 338, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/QAI.0b013e31827e854a

Lea T; Prestage G; Mao L; Zablotska I; de Wit J; Holt M, 2013, 'Trends in drug use among gay and bisexual men in Sydney, Melbourne and Queensland, Australia', Drug and Alcohol Review, 32, pp. 39 - 46, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1465-3362.2012.00494.x

, 2012, 'Track C Epidemiology and Prevention Science', Journal of the International AIDS Society, 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.7448/ias.15.5.18440

Zablotska I; Holt M; Prestage G, 2012, 'Changes in gay men's participation in gay community life: implications for HIV surveillance and research', AIDS and Behavior, 16, pp. 669 - 675, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10461-011-9919-9

Holt M; Rawstorne PR; Wilkinson J; Worth H; Bittman MP; Kippax SC, 2012, 'HIV testing, gay community involvement and internet use: social and behavioural correlates of HIV testing among Australian men who have sex with men', AIDS and Behavior, 16, pp. 13 - 22, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10461-010-9872-z

Callander D; Holt M; Newman CE, 2012, 'Just a preference: racialised language in the sex-seeking profiles of gay and bisexual men', Culture, Health and Sexuality, 14, pp. 1049 - 1063, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2012.714799

Holt M; Bryant J; Newman CE; Paquette D; Mao L; Kidd MR; Saltman DC; Kippax SC, 2012, 'Patterns of alcohol and other drug use associated with major depression among gay men attending general medical practices in Australia', International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 10, pp. 141 - 151, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11469-011-9330-9

Wilkinson J; Bittman MP; Holt M; Rawstorne PR; Kippax SC; Worth H, 2012, 'Solidarity beyond sexuality: the personal communities of gay men', Sociology - the Journal of the British Sociological Association, 46, pp. 1161 - 1177, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038038511435064

Holt M; Murphy DA; Callander D; Ellard JM; Rosengarten M; Kippax SC; de Wit J, 2012, 'Willingness to use HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis and the likelihood of decreased condom use are both associated with unprotected anal intercourse and the perceived likelihood of becoming HIV-positive among Australian gay and bisexual men', Sexually Transmitted Infections, 88, pp. 258 - 263, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/sextrans-2011-050312

Zablotska IB; Kippax S; Grulich A; Holt M; Prestage G, 2011, 'Behavioural surveillance among gay men in Australia: methods, findings and policy implications for the prevention of HIV and other sexually transmissible infections', Sexual Health, 8, pp. 272 - 279, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/SH10125

Kippax SC; Holt M; Friedman SR, 2011, 'Bridging the social and the biomedical: engaging the social and political sciences in HIV research', Journal of the International AIDS Society, 14, pp. S1 - S1, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1758-2652-14-S2-S1

Holt M, 2011, 'Gay men and ambivalence about 'gay community': from gay community attachment to personal communities', Culture, Health and Sexuality, 13, pp. 857 - 871, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2011.581390

Persson AS; Ellard JM; Newman CE; Holt M; de Wit J, 2011, 'Human rights and universal access for men who have sex with men and people who inject drugs: a critical reflection on 2010 UNGASS narrative country progress reports', Social Science and Medicine, 73, pp. 467 - 474, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.05.047

Holt M; Rawstorne PR; Worth H; Bittman M; Wilkinson J; Kippax SC, 2011, 'Predictors of HIV disclosure among untested, HIV-negative and HIV-positive Australian men who had anal intercourse with their most recent casual male sex partner', AIDS and Behavior, 15, pp. 1128 - 1139, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10461-009-9645-8

Mao L; Kippax SC; Holt M; Prestage G; Zablotska I; de Wit J, 2011, 'Rates of condom and non-condom-based anal intercourse practices among homosexually active men in Australia: deliberate HIV risk reduction?', Sexually Transmitted Infections, 87, pp. 489 - 493, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/sextrans-2011-050041

Holt M; Bernard D; Race K, 2010, 'Gay men's perceptions of sexually transmissible infections and their experiences of diagnosis: 'part of the way of life' to feeling 'dirty and ashamed'', Sexual Health, 7, pp. 411 - 416, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/SH09117

Wilson H; Bryant J; Holt M; Treloar C, 2010, 'Normalisation of recreational drug use among young people: evidence about accessibility, use and contact with other drug users', Health Sociology Review, 19, pp. 164 - 175, http://dx.doi.org/10.5172/hesr.2010.19.2.164

Holt M, 2009, ''Just take Viagra': erectile insurance, prophylactic certainty and deficit correction in gay men's accounts of sexuopharmaceutical use', Sexualities, 12, pp. 746 - 764, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460709346112

Holt M; Keen P, 2009, 'Challenges in rolling out rapid HIV testing in Australia', Sexual Health, 6, pp. 101 - 102, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/SH09036

Holt M; Treloar C, 2008, 'Managing mental health problems in everyday life: drug treatment clients` self-care strategies', International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 6, pp. 421 - 431, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11469-007-9114-4

Holt M, 2007, 'Agency and dependency within treatment: Drug treatment clients negotiating methadone and antidepressants', Social Science and Medicine, 64, pp. 1937 - 1947, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2007.01.011

Holt M; Stephenson N, 2006, 'Living with HIV and negotiating psychological discourse', Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Health Illness and Medicine, 10, pp. 211 - 231, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363459306061789

Holt M; Griffin C, 2005, 'Students versus locals: young adults’ constructions of the working-class Other', British Journal of Social Psychology, 44, pp. 241 - 267, http://dx.doi.org/10.1348/014466604X17614

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