HIV/AIDS information for health professionals

This page provides HIV/AIDS clinical guidelines, information on management of people living with or at risk of HIV, information on training opportunities, links to useful resources and a list of GPs eligible to prescribe S100 drugs in Queensland.

Clinical guidelines

Queensland Sexual Health Clinical Management Guidelines 2010
Queensland Health Protocol for Management of People with HIV who Place Others at Risk (2008 PDF, 130kb)
- National guidelines for the management of people with HIV who knowingly place others at risk
Queensland Health HIV/AIDS Mental Health Protocols (2002 PDF, 176kb)
Australasian Society for HIV Medicine
-  Antiretroviral guidelines - Australasian and International
-  National HIV Testing Policy (2006) (PDF, 404kb)
-  HIV Testing factsheet (PDF, 122kb)
Post Exposure Prophyaxis guidelines
- National Post Exposure Prophylaxis guidelines
Clinical counselling guidelines for pre-test discussion and post-test discussion
Patient information (including fact sheets).

HIV Public Health Team

Clinicians seeking support with HIV notifications, contact tracing, and dealing with HIV positive people who may be putting others at risk or having difficulty with disclosure can receive support from the HIV Public Health Team.

Visit the Forms and Resources page to access the HIV Notification and Contact Tracing forms.

Queensland Health HIV Clinical Services

Specialist HIV and Sexual Health services are available throughout Queensland. Clinicians provide treatment and care for people living with HIV. People living with HIV can also access treatment services through hospital based infectious diseases units.

Seroconversion Study for people newly diagnosed with HIV

Below is a link to an invitation to people who have recently been diagnosed with HIV to participate in a national study. The study aims to collect information about HIV knowledge and HIV risk behavious before and after HIV diagnosis which will provide valuable information for health promotion and HIV prevention programs and policies. All information provided by participants is confidential and is kept secure by the Kirby institute at the University of NSW. Study reports produced by the Kirby Institute present information in a de-identified form to protect the confidentiality of study participants. Queensland Health is a funding partner of the study.

GP S100 Prescribers

In addition to Queensland Health services, some GPs also provide specialist HIV treatment and care, and can also prescribe HIV S100 medications. Below is a list of General Practitioners who are eligible to prescribe HIV medication and who have consented to providing their names and postcodes online.

Name	Postcode
Dr Fiona Bisshop	4103
Dr Jacqui Conomos	4220
Dr Paul Crouch-Chivers	4870
Dr Arden Dearden	4870
Dr Kate Evans	4006
Dr Manuel Avivar Fernandez	4101
Dr Bella George	4000
Dr Kay Haig	4870
Dr Clare Heal	4750
Dr James Kennedy	4006
Dr Kenneth Koh	4006
Dr Joseph Leer	4223
Dr Graham Lister	4006
Dr Joanne McLean	4870
Dr Heather McNamee	4870
Dr Margaret Mobbs	4000
Dr Anthony Morice	4870
Dr David Orth	4101
Dr Wendell Rosevear	4030
Dr Jaharlal Saha	4101
Dr Neil Simmons	4030
Dr Shannon Springer	4750
Dr Mekala Srirajalingam	4074
Dr Leonie Todhunter	4101

You can download the GP prescribers list here.

This list is current as at 13 April 2012. For any enquiries please contact the Communicable Diseases Branch on 07 3328 9724 or by emailing hahcsh@health.qld.gov.au.

HIV training and development

Queensland Health provides training and development opportunities for health professionals providing sexual health services and/or care to people with HIV. The program delivered through the University of Queensland School of Medicine includes courses for GPs interested in prescribing S100 HIV treatment drugs.

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