This report examines the data from the PLNSW 2015 PLHIV Access to Health Care in NSW Survey (AHCNSW Survey).

Much of Australia’s policy response to HIV and mobility has been relegated to the ‘needs attention’ category but with no harmonised policy and program response. Without an integrated response across government, community, health services and research there will be little progress in this emerging priority for the Australian HIV epidemic.

This document scans the current situation, the good developments and the bad; details the many initiatives by independent experts, governments, the United Nations and civil society; describes the latest research and its findings in terms of prosecutions and convictions and the social impact of these on the HIV response and people’s behaviour.

Executive summary DEMOGRAPHICS The HIV Futures 7 survey was completed by 1058 HIV positive Australians from all states and territories. This represents approximately 4.3% of the estimated HIV positive population.

The Pacific Islands AIDS Foundation (PIAF), founded in July 2002, is a not-for-profit regional organisation advocating for people living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in the Pacific Region. The New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) provided core funding support to PIAF from 2003 to July 2010...