📍 Devonport YFCC
📍 Queenstown Rural Health Tasmania
📍Wynyard Rural Health Tasmania
📍Ulverstone Neighbourhood House
📍Smithton Wyndarra Community & Resource Centre
Free PrEP is now available at Tasmanian Sexual Health Clinics for people who are ineligible for Medicare. The consultation, pathology and medication are all free, including delivery if you live outside Hobart. This is only available at the following clinics and not from a regular GP. You must call and make an appointment to access this service.
Drop in for a free hepatitis C test in various locations around Tasmania.
Financial incentives are available for testing.
TasCAHRD works with communities, health services, researchers and government to reduce the rates of BBVs and STIs and their impact in Tasmania.
We provide education, support, outreach and advocacy to improve health literacy and access to health-related services, and to reduce stigma and discrimination.
Our vision is a world where people live well and proud.
Our education program focuses on health literacy, blood-borne viruses and sexually transmitted infections. Our goal is to reduce stigma and transmissions and to increase testing and treatment.
We publish a quarterly lifestyle magazine, Red Thread, and we operate Red Thread Studios, an audio-visual recording studio for the community.
We support those living with or at risk of blood-borne viruses by providing advocacy, referrals, financial assistance, and information about treatments, testing, transmission and prevention
We work with together with community organisations, schools, colleges, UTAS and the Government to provide support, knowledge and resources to various group in the community, including young people, LGBTIQA+, people who inject drugs, sex workers, and people from overseas.
We provide representation, consultation and advocacy at sector, community, and government levels to inform national campaigns, research, and policy development.
We manage the primary Needle and Syringe Program (NSP) for Hobart. The NSP is a harm reduction initiative that reduces the risks from injecting drug use by providing sterile injecting equipment, advice, support and referrals to services and healthcare.
For more information or help working out which type of support it right for you, please don’t hesitate to reach out for help.
