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Martin Holt is affiliated with the University of New South Wales in Australia, specializing primarily in the field of Medicine with a focus on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, and Virology as subfields of study.

Their research covers a broad range of topics related to HIV/AIDS, its transmission, and social implications. Key topics of their work include:

  • HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
  • HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
  • Sex Work and Related Issues
  • LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
  • Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • HIV Research and Treatment
  • Poxvirus Research and Outbreaks

Martin Holt has authored multiple papers with notable recent publications including:

  • "Physical Distancing Due to COVID-19 Disrupts Sexual Behaviors Among Gay and Bisexual Men in Australia: Implications for Trends in HIV and Other Sexually Transmissible Infections," 2020, JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
  • "Substantial Decline in Use of HIV Preexposure Prophylaxis Following Introduction of COVID-19 Physical Distancing Restrictions in Australia: Results From a Prospective Observational Study of Gay and Bisexual Men," 2020, JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
  • "Destabilising the 'problem' of chemsex: Diversity in settings, relations and practices revealed in Australian gay and bisexual men's crystal methamphetamine use," 2020, International Journal of Drug Policy
  • "Australian 'gayborhoods' and 'lesborhoods': a new method for estimating the number and prevalence of adult gay men and lesbian women living in each Australian postcode," 2020, International Journal of Geographical Information Systems
  • "Prevalence, frequency, and motivations for alkyl nitrite use among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men in Australia," 2020, International Journal of Drug Policy

Martin Holt frequently collaborates with coauthors including Benjamin R. Bavinton, Timothy R. Broady, Garrett Prestage, James MacGibbon, and Andrew E. Grulich.

Their work is frequently published in journals such as:

  • AIDS and Behavior
  • JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
  • Sexual Health
  • Archives of Sexual Behavior
  • Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Best Publications

  • Is sexual racism really racism? Distinguishing attitudes toward sexual racism and generic racism among gay and bisexual men.

    Denton Callander;Christy E. Newman;Martin Holt

  • Community-level changes in condom use and uptake of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis by gay and bisexual men in Melbourne and Sydney, Australia: results of repeated behavioural surveillance in 2013-17.

    Martin Holt;Toby Lea;Toby Lea;Limin Mao;Johann Kolstee

  • Effect of availability of HIV self-testing on HIV testing frequency in gay and bisexual men at high risk of infection (FORTH): a waiting-list randomised controlled trial

    Muhammad S Jamil;Garrett Prestage;Christopher K. Fairley;Andrew E Grulich

  • 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

    Martin Holt;Dean A Murphy;Denton Callander;Jeanne Ellard

  • Gay men and ambivalence about 'gay community': from gay community attachment to personal communities.

    Martin Holt

  • Being Gay, Being Straight and Being Yourself Local and Global Reflections on Identity, Authenticity and the Lesbian and Gay Scene

    Martin Holt;Christine Griffin

  • Physical Distancing Due to COVID-19 Disrupts Sexual Behaviors Among Gay and Bisexual Men in Australia: Implications for Trends in HIV and Other Sexually Transmissible Infections.

    Mohamed A. Hammoud;Lisa Maher;Martin Holt;Louisa Degenhardt

  • Changes in Gay Men’s Participation in Gay Community Life: Implications for HIV Surveillance and Research

    Iryna B. Zablotska;Martin Holt;Garrett Prestage

  • ‘Not everyone’s gonna like me’: Accounting for race and racism in sex and dating web services for gay and bisexual men

    Denton Callander;Martin Holt;Christy E. Newman

  • Just a preference: racialised language in the sex-seeking profiles of gay and bisexual men

    Denton Callander;Martin Holt;Christy E. Newman

  • Pleasure and drugs

    Martin Holt;Carla Treloar

  • Behavioural surveillance among gay men in Australia: methods, findings and policy implications for the prevention of HIV and other sexually transmissible infections.

    Iryna B Zablotska;Susan Kippax;Andrew Grulich;Martin Holt

  • HIV testing, gay community involvement and internet use: social and behavioural correlates of HIV testing among Australian men who have sex with men.

    M. Holt;P. Rawstorne;J. Wilkinson;H. Worth

  • Barriers to HIV testing and characteristics associated with never testing among gay and bisexual men attending sexual health clinics in Sydney.

    Damian P Conway;Damian P Conway;Martin Holt;Deborah L Couldwell;Don E Smith

  • Deficit models and divergent philosophies: Service providers’ perspectives on barriers and incentives to drug treatment

    Carla Treloar;Martin Holt

  • HIV/AIDS, hepatitis and sexually transmissible infections in Australia: annual report of trends in behaviour 2013

    John de Wit;Limin Mao;Martin holt;Carla Treloar

  • Gay community periodic survey: Melbourne 2016

    Evelyn Lee;Limin Mao;Tex McKenzie;Colin Batrouney

  • 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 region and the Americas

    Martin Holt

  • Agency and dependency within treatment: drug treatment clients negotiating methadone and antidepressants.

    Martin Holt

  • Adapting behavioural surveillance to antiretroviral-based HIV prevention: reviewing and anticipating trends in the Australian Gay Community Periodic Surveys.

    Martin Holt;Toby Lea;Limin Mao;Iryna Zablotska

  • The rush to risk when interrogating the relationship between methamphetamine use and sexual practice among gay and bisexual men.

    Joanne Bryant;Max Hopwood;Gary W. Dowsett;Gary W. Dowsett;Peter Aggleton

  • Rates of condom and non-condom-based anal intercourse practices among homosexually active men in Australia: deliberate HIV risk reduction?

    Limin Mao;Susan C Kippax;Martin Holt;Garrett P Prestage

Frequent Co-Authors

Garrett Prestage
Garrett Prestage University of New South Wales
John de Wit
John de Wit Utrecht University
Iryna Zablotska
Iryna Zablotska University of Sydney
Mark Stoove
Mark Stoove Burnet Institute
Susan Kippax
Susan Kippax University of New South Wales
Lisa Maher
Lisa Maher University of New South Wales
Adam Bourne
Adam Bourne La Trobe University
Louisa Degenhardt
Louisa Degenhardt University of New South Wales
Graham Brown
Graham Brown University of Melbourne
Janaki Amin
Janaki Amin Macquarie University

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