Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Dec 2017
Bill Shorten commits to 53 million dollar plan to 'make HIV history' in Australia
10 December 2017 - People at high risk of HIV would be given cheap access to a breakthrough preventative medicine under a federal Labor plan to make Australia the first nation in the world to win the fight against the virus that causes AIDS.
The opposition's $53 million plan would dramatically expand state trials of the drug PrEP until it is approved for a federal subsidy, increase funding for HIV peak bodies and tackle rising transmission rates in Aboriginal communities.
Opposition health spokeswoman Catherine King will announce the package - which aims to bring the number of new HIV cases down from about 1000 a year to almost zero - on Monday, promising to deliver it if Labor wins the next election.
