New resource available – HIV and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities in 2016

The South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI) has released a new resource today, HIV and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities in 2016, to highlight the risk that HIV could take hold among our people and inform discussion of actions needed to prevent this from happening. The booklet provides an overview of the most recent data on HIV rates in our community and discusses the growing divergence between HIV rates among Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. The resource also profiles Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Awareness Week – ATSIHAW – and the role played by the community and Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services in making it such a success.