A framework to guide and coordinate Australia’s national response towards virtual elimination of HIV transmission by 2030. The Strategy focuses on reducing new and late diagnoses, improving HIV outcomes for priority populations, implementing new models for testing and treatment, and addressing ongoing stigma and discrimination. It also endorses the Undetectable=Untransmittable (U=U) campaign, a global effort to tackle the stigma of HIV.

The strategy outlines:

• guiding principles
• key achievements
• how to measure progress, specifying goals and targets
• priority populations and settings
• priorities: prevention, testing, treatment and care, and stigma
• enablers: policy and legislation, workforce, and surveillance, research and evaulation.

In 2023, the HIV Taskforce was established to develop recommendations to the Australian Government on priority areas of action. This new Strategy is informed by the Taskforce’s findings.

Key findings

• HIV notifications have decreased by 33% between 2014 and 2023.
• HIV prevalence in Australia in 2023 was estimated at 0.14%, one of the lowest globally.
• Stigma remains a major barrier to HIV prevention, testing and treatment.
• The COVID-19 pandemic negatively impacted testing and treatment uptake.