$22.5m for prevention
July 8, 2014
A NEW prevention program
focusing on sexually transmissible
infections (STIs) and blood borne
viruses (BBVs) including HIV,
hepatitis B and hepatitis C costing
$22.45m is being launched by the
government and endorsed by the
Health Council of the Council of
Australian Governments (COAG).
The program targets populations
at high probability risk namely
gay and bisexual men, Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander people,
culturally and linguistically diverse
Australians, young people, people
in rural and regional areas, and
people who inject drugs.
The government said $7.2m
will go to reduce the rate of STIs
among Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islanders, $1m toward point of care
demonstration HIV testing projects,
$5.1m for needle and syringe
programs, $4.6m to increase hep B
testing and treatment and $4.5m
for the 20th International AIDS
Conference in Melbourne in July.
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