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Topic: Australia’s response to HIV/AIDS:................................................................................2
Introduction:...............................................................................................................................2
History and reasons behind the public policy:...........................................................................2
Impact of change within Australian Society:.............................................................................4
Conclusion:................................................................................................................................5
References:.................................................................................................................................6

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Topic: Australia’s response to HIV/AIDS:
Introduction:
In Australia the first situation of AIDS was identified during November 1982, and the
first death occurring from AIDS was in July 1983. During the mid-1980s, Australia was
seeing a significant rise in the “HIV/AIDS” case. Fortunately, the case relating to the new
HIV infection fell down subsequently and have been at lower level groups for around 20
years. The epidemic diseases such as HIV remained mainly within the groups that are first
effected by HIV and did not involve the general population (Holt, 2017). The present study is
based on examining the policies and the programs that has been adopted by the successive
Australian national government that have assumed the responsibility towards funding the
national HIV/AIDS strategies. The study will also discuss the effect that can be noticed
following the change within the Australian society.
History and reasons behind the public policy:
In Australia the history of HIV/AIDS has been distinguishing, since the Australian
management bodies have identified and replied to the plague disease such as HIV/AIDS in a
swift manner by implementing effective disease prevention as well as public health programs
(McKinnon et al., 2017). The programs include needle and syringe programs. Because of this,
in spite of the significant number of group members exposed to risk of getting affected by the
virus in the early period after its discovery, the nation has attained and maintained a lower
rate of HIV as compared to the rest of the world. By the end of year 2017, around 27,545
individuals were projected to be living with HIV/AIDS in Australia. While 20,922 cases of
infection were mainly related to male-to-male sex contact. Around 6,245 people were
infected due to heterosexual sex, 605 became infected out of vaccinating drug usage and 168
were exposures to new born, blood/tissue receivers, healthcare setting and haemophilia