ETHICS and PRIVACY

Both the Online portion of the survey and the optional face-to-face interview are confidential. Part or full quotes may be used in future publications, but all identifying information will be removed from any quotes used, and from the recorded transcript of interviews. Audio recordings of any participant will be destroyed after transcription. Any identifying information you provide to the research team will be kept confidential and will not be divulged to anyone outside the Seroconversion Study research team, except as required by law.

Complaints

If you have any complaints or queries that the researcher has not been able to answer to your satisfaction, you may contact either:

Ethics Secretariat,
The University of NSW
Sydney 2052 Australia
phone:+61 2 9385 4234
fax: +61 2 9385 6648
e-mail: ethics.sec@unsw.edu.au

The Secretary, Human Ethics Committee,
Research and Graduate Studies Office,
La Trobe University
Victoria 3086 Australia
phone: +61 3 9479 1443
e-mail: humanethics@latrobe.edu.au
web: www.latrobe.edu.au

Feedback

Feedback will be provided through the media, through public meetings and seminars (advertised in the general press), and through reports and publications prepared by the study team.

Your consent

Your decision whether or not to participate will not prejudice your future relations with The University of New South Wales, The University of Western Sydney or any state-based AIDS service organisations. If you decide to participate, you are free to withdraw your consent and to discontinue participation at any time without prejudice.

Inquiries

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask us. If you have any additional questions later, please direct any inquiries to:

Assoc Prof Garrett Prestage, PhD

The Kirby Institue (formerlyNational Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research)
The University of New South Wales
phone: +61 2 9385 0900
e-mail: seroconversion@kirby.unsw.edu.au

Australian Research Centre in Sex Health & Society
La Trobe University
phone: +61 3 9285 5129