The Choice is Yours is a Positive Life NSW digital resource promoting choice to people living with HIV (PLHIV) when accessing their HIV medication in NSW.
The Choice is Yours contains information supporting
- PLHIV in NSW to exercise choice in accessing their HIV medication
- the role of PLHIV in NSW as key in preventing HIV transmission
- pharmacists who dispense HIV medications and HIV service partners in NSW about options for PLHIV accessing HIV medication and
- the choice of people at risk of HIV who are living in NSW to access medication to prevent HIV.
This website offers information, resources and support
- for PLHIV and HIV service partners to locate NSW pharmacies who are dispensing HIV medication
- for PLHIV and HIV service partners to understand the benefits of and the evidence for starting immediate antiretroviral therapy (ART) after a HIV diagnosis (immediate HIV treatment)
- for PLHIV who are Medicare ineligible to access affordable HIV medication
- for PLHIV to access S100 prescribers, GPs and sexual health clinics for their HIV medication prescriptions
- for local NSW chemists and pharmacies who dispense HIV medications
- to people at risk of contracting HIV to access PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis), which is used to protect against contracting HIV
- to people who might have been exposed to HIV to access PEP (Post-Exposure Prophylaxis), which is used to help prevent HIV infection
- for newly diagnosed PLHIV who would like assistance with notifying sexual partners that they have potentially been put at risk of an infection, click here for information about the Peer-led Notification Project.