Australia, used widespread public health campaigns like this one, to help suppress HIV transmission.
And it largely worked.
Around 8000 Australians have died of HIV, of the estimated 36 million global fatalities since the first case was detected.
Mr Keane says while treating HIV now is as simple as taking one pill per day, not everyone is aware.
He says education with multicultural communities is paramount in Australia to make sure everyone is informed.
The number of people diagnosed with HIV in Australia is at an all-time low.
According to new data released by The Kirby Institute at The University of New South Wales, there were 633 new HIV diagnoses in 2020, a decline of 30 per cent on the year before.
But nearly half of the new cases are considered 'late diagnoses', meaning the person has had the infection for four or more years without knowing it.
Dr Sarah Garner, a medical microbiologist from Dorevitch Pathology, says this is concerning.
So we still have people turning up at the hospital that is really sick, when we do an HIV test it's positive and we find out that their immune system is really low. And for a lot of those people when they're admitted to hospital, they may have three or four other conditions.
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