The NSW Ministry of Health (NSW MoH) requested Positive Life NSW (PLNSW) produce a discussion paper which explored the future service needs of people living with HIV (PLHIV) in NSW with complex care needs, in relation to HIV specialists and mainstream services.

This report examines the data from the PLNSW 2015 PLHIV Access to Health Care in NSW Survey (AHCNSW Survey). The data from the survey has been used to inform a discussion paper – The needs of people living with HIV as they access HIV specialist and mainstream services in NSW – 2015.

More than half of respondents (50.85% n=90) identified their main source of health care as a Sexual Health or HIV Specialist s100 prescriber. A further 19.77% n=35 identified a hospital doctor s100 prescriber as their main source of health care. 70.62% therefore sought health care from a Sexual Health Centre or hospital-based HIV specialist. In contrast, less than a third of respondents (28.25% n=50) identified their main source of health care as coming from a GP s100 prescriber. 1.13% n=2 identified a visiting publicly funded s100 prescriber as their primary source of health care and these individuals were located in rural or regional NSW..