Doctors in far North QLD are fighting the greatest Australian HIV epidemic since the AIDS crisis, and until now they’ve been largely doing it alone. via TheFeedSBS
finds out what it's like to live with HIV in 2019. HIV Positive, Tuesday April 2 at 8:30pm on SBS and SBS On Demand.in Australia was in Sydney in October 1982, and the first Australian death from AIDS occurred in Melbourne in July 1983. In the decades since those early days of the epidemic until quite recently Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians were at no greater risk of acquiring HIV than their non-Indigenous counterparts.
In 2012, though, something changed. Slowly at first, the rate of HIV diagnosis for First Australians started to rise. The diagnosis rate has now become almost twice that for Australian-born non-Indigenous people. And much of the increase can be attributed to an ongoing outbreak in north Queensland, predominantly in Cairns and in the Torres Strait, nestled up against Papua New Guinea in the steamy far north.
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