This list of acronyms includes organisations, conditions and groups specific to the Australian HIV sector. It is not intended as a comprehensive global list.
Last updated 7 December 2009.
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AACACT AIDS Action Council of Australian Capital Territory
ACFID Australian Council For International Development
ACON AIDS Council of New South Wales
ACOSS Australian Council of Social Services
ACSA AIDS Council of South Australia
AFAO Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations
AHC Australian Hepatitis Council
AIDS Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
AIVL Australian Injecting and Illicit Users League
AMS Aboriginal Medical Service
ANCAHRD Australian National Council on AIDS, Hepatitis C and Related Diseases (1999 - 2003)
ANET The AFAO/NAPWA Education Team
APCASO Asia Pacific Council For AIDS Service Organisations
APHDPC Australian Population Health Development Principle Committee - Blood Borne Virus and STI Sub-Committee (formerly IGCAHRD)
APN+ Asia Pacific Network For People Living With HIV/AIDS
ARCSHS Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society
ASHM Australasian Society For HIV Medicine
ATA AIDS Trust of Australia
ATPA AIDS Treatment Project of Australia (Now TreatAware)
ATSIPON Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Project Officer Network (NAPWA)
AusAID Australian Agency For International Development
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BGF Bobby Goldsmith Foundation
BBVSS Blood Borne Viruses and Sexually Transmissible Infections Sub-Committee (of the Australian Population Health Development Principle Committee)
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CAHMA Canberra Alliance for Harm Minimisation & Advocacy
CHF Consumers’ Health Forum of Australia
CBO Community-based Organisation
CHOGM Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting
CMA Commonwealth Medical Association
CSN Community Support Network
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DoHA Department of Health and Ageing
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EMF Education Managers' Forum
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HIV Human Immunodeficiency Virus
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IAG International Advisory Group
ICAAP International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific
ICASO International Council of AIDS Service Organisation
ICW International Community of Women Living With HIV/AIDS
IGCARDIntergovernmental Council on AIDS and Related Diseases - See APHDPC
INT-AIDS International AIDS (an internet listserv discussion)
IT Information Technology
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MACBBVS Ministerial Advisory Committee on Blood Borne Viruses and Sexually Transmissible Infections
MBC Macfarlane Burnet Centre
MSM Men-who-have-sex-with-men
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NACCHO National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation
NAPWA National Association of People Living With HIV/AIDS
NCHECR National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research
NCHSR National Centre in HIV Social Research
NCHVR National Centre For HIV Virology Research
NGO Non-Government Organisation
NIH National Institutes of Health (USA)
NTAHC Northern Territory AIDS and Hepatitis Council
NUAA NSW Users & AIDS Association
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PLWHIV People Living with HIV
PLWHA People Living With HIV/AIDS (preferred term now PLHIV)
PRG Policy Reference Group
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QuAHC Queensland Association for Healthy Communities
QUIHN Queensland Injectors Health Network
QPP Queensland Positive People
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SAVIVE South Australian Voice for IV Education
SEA-AIDS South-East Asia AIDS (an internet listserv discussion)
SOPV Sex-on-premises venues
SSO Sydney Star Observer
STI Sexually Transmitted Infection
SWOP Sex Workers Outreach Project
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TAC Treatment Action Campaign
TasCAHRD Tasmanian Council of AIDS, Hepatitis and Related Disease
TON Treatment Officers Network
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UNAIDS Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS
UNGASS United Nations General Assembly Special Session (on HIV/AIDS)
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VAC / GMHC Victorian AIDS Council / Gay Men’s Health Centre
VIVAIDS Victorian Drug User’s Group
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WAAC Western Australia AIDS Council
WAD World AIDS Day
WASUA Western Australian Substance User’s Association
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