Campaigns
AIVL’s advocacy and engagement work includes the development of policy
statements and submissions on issues of relevance to people who use/have used drugs.
Policies & Position Statements
AIVL’s Position Statement: World Hepatitis Day 2023 - Stigma and Fear Continue to Kill our Community
AIVL’s Position Statement: ‘Support. Don’t Punish’ Day 2023
AIVL’s Position Statement: The Harms of Criminalising Drugs
AIVL’s Response To The Federal Budget 2023
Policy Statement on Custodial Settings and hepatitis C: Harm Reduction and Continuity of Care
Policy Statement on Supporting Healthy Ageing for People Who Inject Drugs and/or Receive Pharmacotherapies
Interim Guidance for the Delivery of Medication Assisted Treatment of Opioid Dependence in Response to COVID-19: A National Response
Policy Statement on Methamphetamine Use, Blood Borne Viruses (BBVs) and Sexually Transmissible Infections (STIs)
Policy Statement on Legislative Barriers to Peer Distribution of Sterile Injecting Equipment
Urgent Policy and Funding Needs in the Alcohol and Other Drugs Sector in Response to COVID-19
Submissions
2022
AIVL Federal Health Pre-Budget
Submission 2022 – 23
Responding to the Urgent COVID-19 Policy and Funding Needs of the Alcohol and Other Drugs Sector
AIVL Drug Testing Trial Submission
Consultation Paper: Development of the National Preventative Health Strategy
Open Letter Calling for Safe Release of Adults and Children from Prisons and Youth Detention Centres
RACGP Standards of Health Services in Australian Prisons (2nd edition)
Second National Open Letter to Australian Governments on COVID-19 and Prisons and Youth Detention Centres
2019
Healthy Prison Review of the Alexander Maconochie Centre (AMC)
AIVL Drug Testing Trial Submission
AIVL Federal Health Budget 2019–2020 Overview
Developing the Implementation Plans for the National BBV and STI Strategies
Healthy Prison Review of the AMC Submission
Nyxoid Submission 2019
Potential Benefits of Long Acting
Buprenorphine Formulations in
Pharmacotherapy for Opioid Dependence
Submission number 41 on the Senate Committee website: https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Community_Affairs/DrugTestingTrial2019/Submissions
2018
Joint 1-pager: My Health Record
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