Treatment uptake

7th National HIV Strategy

Benefits of treatment

• HIV impacts health from the time of seroconversion

• Earlier treatment can offer a range of health benefits

• Opinion of when to start treatment changing

• Treatment reduces risk of transmission

• Individual preferences need to be respected

Barriers to treatment• Medicare ineligibility

• Engagement with information care & support

• Costs of multiple prescriptions - Centrelink

• AOD use – treatment breaks

• Mental health

• Prescriber preferences

Campaign work

The future

• Improved treatments & accesso AHOD Temporary Residents Access Scheme (ATRAS)

• Address HIV as well as gay, bi & MSM related stigma

• Continued partnerships

• Positive voice – inclusion of all PLHIV

• Changing trends – health & treatmentso support research