The Centre of Ethnicity & Health (CEH), Co-Manager Alison Coelho said that the main obstacle that stop people testing, and getting treatment for HIV positive is stigma. It is not the only stigma within their communities but also the stigma they encountered when accessing health services.
Therefore CEH let's Australian communities design the activities called "I am happy I know my status" to make them feel comfortable to talk about HIV education, prevention, testing, and getting treatment.
In addition to that, youth clinic will also be establish this October 2017. The main purpose is to create a comfortable environment to counsel to help, to test, to treat at the spot.
Furthermore, there is also Health Translation Directory that has thousands of health information resources in different languages that Australian public can access.
Alison Coelho, Co-Manager of Centre of Culture, Ethnicity & Health also mentioned that when sex industry is criminalized, it goes under ground. She also added that accessing to HIV testing and treatment is a human rights issue and everyone is protected under the laws of the land and everyone is entitled to care and to be respected.
She also said that people can access different services centres from the state they are living in:
Queensland: Ethnic Community Council in Brisbane
New South Wales: Multicultural Centre for HIV AIDS and Hepatitis
Victoria: Centre of Ethnicity & Health (CEH) 9418 9929
South Australia: Relationship Australia
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