8588 (2024). Hon Dr Ayesha Verrall to the Associate Minister of Health

8588 (2024). Hon Dr Ayesha Verrall to the Associate Minister of Health: What progress, if any, has been made in the last quarter (September – December 2023) has been made toward actioning ‘collaboration and integration between health services and community organisations’ under Focus area 3: Testing and linkage to care actions as recommended in the National HIV Action Plan?

Hon Matt Doocey: I am advised that during the October -- December 2023 quarter, HIV service providers continued to deliver scaled up innovative HIV testing, using HIV Action Plan implementation funding. This included delivering rapid point-of-care testing in a range of settings, and strengthening collaboration and integration between health services and community organisations.