ACON launches LGBTI health and wellbeing service inclusion benchmark
The new benchmark will “provide a much-needed resource for those seeking to ensure full inclusivity of LGBTI people within the services and programs that they offer”.
The new benchmark will “provide a much-needed resource for those seeking to ensure full inclusivity of LGBTI people within the services and programs that they offer”.
“By engaging with the experiences of people who have recently been diagnosed with HIV, we’re hoping to find out why some people living with HIV today experience better care and wellbeing outcomes than others”
“Even with tremendous progress being made, we cannot afford to lose focus, we must continue to work together to reduce HIV transmissions.”
“Over 90,000 gay and bisexual men have used poppers in the last six months, and that’s a lot of people who would, almost overnight, become liable to fines or even prison.”
“I plan to live as long as possible and as well as possible. I’m even eating vegetables now… in my Bloody Mary.”
The survey results will help with the development of sexual health policy, sex education, relationship support, and health policy for gender diverse communities.
“We hear a lot of reassurances from different bodies that there has been change, but nobody has been able to produce any evidence of that.”
“The speed of the decline we’ve seen in new HIV infections in gay and bisexual men is a world first.”
“Removing the divorce requirement and removing the surgery requirement are linked by the same principles and affect the same people, which is why we want to see them happen at the same time.”
“Most men continued to have negative perceptions toward drug use within the gay community, although they held less negative views about their own drug use.”