A/Prof Limin Mao
University of New South Wales
Reader, Health Sciences
Australia
My Publications
Cognitive ageing is premature among a community sample of optimally treated people livi...
HIV Medicine
October 2020
Estimation of the impact of changing drug-use trend on HIV, hepatitis C and syphilis ep...
Sexually Transmitted Infections
March 2020
Making sense of ‘side effects’: Counterpublic health in the era of direct-acting antivi...
International Journal of Drug Policy
October 2019
Estimates of the national trend of drugs use during 2000–2030 in China: A population-ba...
Addictive Behaviors
June 2019
HIV diagnoses in migrant populations in Australia—A changing epidemiology
PLoS ONE
February 2019
Epidemics of HIV, HCV and syphilis infection among synthetic drugs only users, heroin-o...
Scientific Reports
April 2018
Beyond mere pill taking: SMS reminders for HIV treatment adherence delivered to mobile ...
Health & Social Care in the Community
January 2018
HBV, HCV, and HBV/HCV co-infection among HIV-positive patients in Hunan province, China...
Journal of Medical Virology
November 2017
Increasing HIV testing among hard-to-reach groups: examination of RAPID, a community-ba...
BMC Health Services Research
April 2017
Socioeconomic factors explain suboptimal adherence to antiretroviral therapy among HIV-...
PLoS ONE
April 2017
HIV Testing in Men who have Sex with Men: A Follow-up Review of the Qualitative Literat...
AIDS and Behavior
March 2017
Adapting behavioural surveillance to antiretroviral-based HIV prevention: reviewing and...
Sexual Health
January 2017
Beliefs in Antiretroviral Treatment and Self-Efficacy in HIV Management are Associated ...
AIDS and Behavior
December 2016
Hospitalization for Anxiety and Mood Disorders in HIV-Infected and -Uninfected Gay and ...
JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
December 2016
Obstacles to prescribers' initiation early antiretroviral therapy: a barrier to achievi...
The Lancet HIV
December 2016
Beyond equipment distribution in Needle and Syringe Programmes: an exploratory analysis...
Harm Reduction Journal
May 2016
Deconstructing injecting risk of hepatitis C virus transmission: Using strategic positi...
Drugs Education Prevention and Policy
April 2016
The use of mobile phone apps by Australian gay and bisexual men to meet sex partners: a...
Sexually Transmitted Infections
April 2016
Superior Effects of Antiretroviral Treatment among Men Who have Sex with Men Compared t...
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
March 2016
Methamphetamine use among gay and bisexual men in Australia: Trends in recent and regul...
International Journal of Drug Policy
March 2016
On the Margins of Pharmaceutical Citizenship: Not Taking HIV Medication in the “Treatme...
Medical Anthropology Quarterly
February 2016
Patterns of Drug Use and Drug-related Hospital Admissions in HIV-Positive and -Negative...
AIDS and Behavior
February 2016
Gaps in the Continuum of HIV Care: Long Pretreatment Waiting Time between HIV Diagnosis...
BioMed Research International
January 2016
Trust and people who inject drugs: The perspectives of clients and staff of Needle Syri...
International Journal of Drug Policy
January 2016
Brief Report
JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
December 2015
Hospitalisation rates and associated factors in community-based cohorts of HIV-infected...
HIV Medicine
September 2015
Social and Behavioural Correlates of HIV Testing Among Australian Gay and Bisexual Men ...
AIDS and Behavior
September 2015
Corrigendum to “The impact of blood-borne viruses on cause-specific mortality among opi...
Drug and Alcohol Dependence
September 2015
HIV prevention among street-based sex workers (SSWs) in Chongqing, China: interviews wi...
Health & Social Care in the Community
August 2015
The impact of blood-borne viruses on cause-specific mortality among opioid dependent pe...
Drug and Alcohol Dependence
July 2015
“Doing the devil’s work”: Emotional labour and stigma in expanding Needle and Syringe P...
Drugs Education Prevention and Policy
June 2015
Homosexual men in HIV serodiscordant relationships: implications for HIV treatment as p...
Journal of the International AIDS Society
May 2015
‘Not Until I'm Absolutely Half-Dead and Have To:’ Accounting for Non-Use of Antiretrovi...
AIDS Patient Care and STDs
May 2015
Evolving views and practices of antiretroviral treatment prescribers in Australia
The Medical Journal of Australia
March 2015
“Any Condomless Anal Intercourse†is No Longer an Accurate Measure of HIV Sexual ri...
Frontiers in Immunology
February 2015
Factors associated with establishment-based female sex workers accessing health care se...
AIDS Care
January 2015
Estimating antiretroviral treatment coverage rates and viral suppression rates for homo...
Sexual Health
January 2015
Factors associated with women’s entry into the sex industry: findings from interviews c...
Sexual Health
January 2015
Alcohol use among a community-based sample of gay men: Correlates of high-risk use and ...
Drug and Alcohol Review
December 2014
Understanding Concerns About Treatment-as-Prevention Among People with HIV who are not ...
AIDS and Behavior
November 2014
Examining the quality of name code record linkage: what is the impact on death and canc...
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
November 2014
Perceived discrimination and injecting risk among people who inject drugs attending Nee...
Drug and Alcohol Dependence
November 2014
Younger age, recent HIV diagnosis, no welfare support and no annual sexually transmissi...
HIV Medicine
June 2014
Comprehensive testing for, and diagnosis of, sexually transmissible infections among Au...
Sexually Transmitted Infections
November 2013
Australian prescribers' perspectives on ART initiation in the era of “treatment as prev...
AIDS Care
November 2013
At Home and Away: Gay Men and High Risk Sexual Practices
AIDS and Behavior
October 2013
The Informal Use of Antiretrovirals for Preexposure Prophylaxis of HIV Infection Among ...
JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
March 2013
Injecting drug use among gay and bisexual men in Sydney: prevalence and associations wi...
AIDS and Behavior
January 2013
HIV-Negative Gay Men’s Perceived HIV Risk Hierarchy: Imaginary or Real?
AIDS and Behavior
January 2013
HIV and hepatitis C virus co-infection among men who have sex with men in Sydney, and a...
Sexual Health
January 2013
Elevated reporting of unprotected anal intercourse and injecting drug use but no differ...
Sexual Health
January 2013
Sexual Partner’s Age as a Risk Factor for HIV Seroconversion in a Cohort of HIV-Negativ...
AIDS and Behavior
October 2012
Trends in drug use among gay and bisexual men in Sydney, Melbourne and Queensland, Aust...
Drug and Alcohol Review
August 2012
The converging and diverging characteristics of HIV-positive and HIV-negative gay men i...
AIDS Care
May 2012
Gay Men Who Are Not Getting Tested for HIV
AIDS and Behavior
April 2012
High Annual Syphilis Testing Rates Among Gay Men in Australia, but Insufficient Retesting
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
April 2012
The importance of blood-borne viruses in elevated cancer risk among opioid-dependent pe...
BMJ Open
January 2012
Australian Gay Men Who Have Taken Nonoccupational Postexposure Prophylaxis for HIV Are ...
JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
December 2011
Rates of condom and non-condom-based anal intercourse practices among homosexually acti...
Sexually Transmitted Infections
July 2011
Patterns of Alcohol and Other Drug Use Associated with Major Depression Among Gay Men A...
International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction
May 2011
Discourses of Depression of Australian General Practitioners Working With Gay Men
Qualitative Health Research
March 2011
‘The black dog just came and sat on my face and built a kennel’: Gay men making sense o...
Health An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health Illness and Medicine
December 2010
HIV generations? Generational discourse in interviews with Australian general practitio...
Social Science & Medicine
June 2010
Are antibody deficiency disorders associated with a narrower range of cancers than othe...
Blood
May 2010
Circumcision and risk of HIV infection in Australian homosexual men
AIDS
November 2009
Nonoccupational postexposure prophylaxis, subsequent risk behaviour and HIV incidence i...
AIDS
June 2009
ORIGINAL RESEARCH–MEN'S SEXUAL HEALTH: Self-Reported Sexual Difficulties and Their Asso...
Journal of Sexual Medicine
May 2009
Use of Viral Load to Negotiate Condom Use Among Gay Men in Sydney, Australia
AIDS and Behavior
February 2009
Social factors associated with Major Depressive Disorder in homosexually active, gay me...
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
February 2009
Features of the management of depression in gay men and men with HIV from the perspecti...
Family Practice
November 2008
Does Circumcision Make a Difference to the Sexual Experience of Gay Men? Findings from ...
Journal of Sexual Medicine
November 2008
Experiences in managing problematic crystal methamphetamine use and associated depressi...
BMC Family Practice
August 2008
Self-report is a valid measure of circumcision status in homosexual men
Sexually Transmitted Infections
June 2008
Sex work and risk behaviour among HIV-negative gay men
AIDS Care
August 2007
Differences between men who report frequent, occasional or no unprotected anal intercou...
AIDS Care
November 2006
Incidence and risk factors for urethral and anal gonorrhoea and chlamydia in a cohort o...
Sexually Transmitted Infections
September 2006
Transmission of Herpes Simplex Virus Types 1 and 2 in a Prospective Cohort of HIV‐Negat...
The Journal of Infectious Diseases
September 2006
‘Serosorting’ in casual anal sex of HIV-negative gay men is noteworthy and is increasin...
AIDS
May 2006
HIV optimism does not explain increases in high-risk sexual behaviour among gay men of ...
AIDS
May 2006
Number of Risk Acts by Relationship Status and Partner Serostatus: Findings from the HI...
AIDS and Behavior
February 2006
HIV risk and communication between regular partners in a cohort of HIV-negative gay men
AIDS Care
February 2006
Demographic predictors of circumcision status in a community-based sample of homosexual...
Sexual Health
January 2006
How has the sexual behaviour of gay men changed since the onset of AIDS: 1986-2003
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
December 2005
Willingness to participate in HIV vaccine trials among HIV-negative gay men in Sydney, ...
International Journal of STD & AIDS
April 2005
Undetectable viral load is associated with sexual risk taking in HIV serodiscordant gay...
AIDS
January 2005
Contexts for last occasions of unprotected anal intercourse among HIV-negative gay men ...
AIDS Care
January 2005
Gay Asian Men in Sydney Resist International Trend: No Change in Rates of Unprotected A...
AIDS Education and Prevention
February 2004
Individualism-Collectivism, Self-Efficacy, and Other Factors Associated With Risk Takin...
AIDS Education and Prevention
February 2004
Ethnic and gay identification: Gay Asian men dealing with the divide
Culture Health & Sexuality
January 2002
