The impact of complexity on HIV clinical management and clinical research

From the Foreword:

The Australian Government has recently released a new National HIV/AIDS Strategy. It has an ambitious theme – “Revitalising Australia’s Response to HIV/AIDS”.

The release of the Strategy comes at a time of growing – if not unparalleled – complexity in HIV/AIDS treatment, care, research and prevention. So the Strategy’s theme is very appropriate, as the impact of complexity is an important reason why our HIV response needs revitalising. But with complexity also comes optimism as new treatments become available, scientific knowledge increases and mortality rates remain low.

As advocates, we find this a very stimulating time to be involved in HIV from a strategy and policy perspective: Australia needs to revitalise its HIV/AIDS response, but how this should be done is not always clear. This presents a challenge for all in the HIV sector.

The full discussion paper (a 39-page PDF document) can be downloaded from the link below.

The authors of the discussion paper — Bill Whittaker and Jo Watson — very much welcome feedback on the paper. Please email any comments you might have to clinical@tpg.com.au [1].

Note: The latest version of this document can always be found on this page. Amendments to this document are logged below.

• 2 Sep 2005: incorporated a summary of key findings and corrected some typograpical errors.
• 6 Sep 2005: corrected some typographical errors.

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