VIVAIDS, the Victorian Drug User Organisation, is a community-based, not-for-profit incorporated association, founded in 1987 in direct response to the threat of an HIV/AIDS epidemic among people who use drugs in Australia. Since then, VIVAIDS’ focus has expanded to include a wide range of health and social issues including the Hepatitis C epidemic, drug-related overdose, addressing emerging harms associated with the use of party-drugs and amphetamine-type substances, opioid substitution pharmacotherapies and other needs and issues as they arise.
VIVAIDS role currently includes:
- Education and, in particular, peer-education to reduce drug related harms
- Health Promotion
- Research collaboration
- Advocacy, policy advice and raising community awareness
- Support and referral
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