Events

This annual event shines a spotlight on the critical importance of healthcare environmental hygiene (HEH) in reducing healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), protecting patients, and ensuring the safety of healthcare workers. This year's theme, "The 6 Technical Domains of Healthcare Environmental Hygiene," emphasizes key areas essential to effective infection prevention, including: Surfaces Air control Water control Device reprocessing & sterilization Laundry Waste management These six domains are pivotal to enhancing patient safety, improving outcomes, and creating a healthier environment within healthcare facilities […]

In 2024, the theme is U.N.I.T.E. Unify Novice Inspire Talk Exhale Download the PNW poster https://www.acorn.org.au/client_images/2661886.png

World AIDS Day is an international day that began in 1988. It’s held on 1 December each year to help raise awareness about HIV and AIDS in our community and across the world. It reminds us that HIV is still a global epidemic. In Australia, it is a day for the community to: show their support for people living with HIV raise awareness about prevention, treatment and care eliminate stigma and discrimination around HIV remember people who have died of […]

World TB Day observed annually on March 24, amplifies the urgency of ending tuberculosis—the world’s deadliest infectious disease. TB continues to devastate millions globally, inflicting severe health, social, and economic consequences. This year’s theme, Yes! We Can End TB: Commit, Invest, Deliver, is a bold call for hope, urgency, and accountability. Key messages are commitment, investment and delivery.

The Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases (ASID) Annual Scientific Meeting is being held in Canberra, Australia, from 3-5 April 2025.  This is the leading event for adult and paediatric infectious disease and clinical microbiology specialists in Australasia. This year's theme, ‘The Changing Face of Infectious Disease’, will explore the future landscape of infectious disease. The program will feature presentations on cutting-edge diagnostics, public health advancements, the new Australian CDC, and regional infectious disease challenges in Australia and the Pacific. See […]

On the 10th April, we celebrate International Day of Sterilisation Sciences. It's an opportunity to acknowledge the important role that Sterilisation Services teams play in delivering safe care and better healthcare outcomes.

World Immunization Week, celebrated in the last week of April, brings together a diverse and broad coalition of partners to promote the use of vaccines to protect people of all ages against disease. To ensure that the immunization successes of the past 50 years are built on in the next decades, WHO, UNICEF, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and other partners will continue the “Humanly Possible” campaign launched last year, with a future forward look on the ensuring Immunization for All […]