HIV Futures 10
Quality of life among people living with HIV in Australia
2022
HIV Futures is the largest and longest-running study of people living with HIV in Australia. Running since 1997, the study involves periodic surveys of Australians living with HIV. In 2022, the survey now includes people who have now been living with HIV for up to 40 years, as well as people diagnosed very recently, in the past five years or less.
The findings from HIV Futures show that, for the most part, people living with HIV are doing well and living healthy, productive and happy lives. However, despite significant medical advances that now mean HIV cannot be sexually transmitted by people on treatment (i.e., undetectable = untransmissible, or U=U), HIV continues to be a highly stigmatised condition. This has a significant effect on people’s lives and leaves some people to withdraw socially or experience loneliness and poor mental health.
HIV Futures demonstrates that people living with HIV both need and deserve ongoing and multifaceted support, access to services that are affirming of their needs, and opportunities to have meaningful social connections to cope with, and challenge, the negative impact of stigma that often accompanies living with HIV.
Publications
HIV Futures 10: Quality of life among people living with HIV in Australia
A study of quality of life among people living with HIV (PLHIV) in Australia, with data collected from mid-2021 to early 2022.
Key findings summary PowerPoint slide pack
To help you include findings from HIV Futures 10, we have created a PowerPoint slide pack with key findings:
HIV FUTURES Impact Report
A report on the ways the HIV FUTURES studies have been used to inform policy and practice at a national and state/territory level, as well as guide community and clinical responses, support advocacy, and underpin research and service planning.
Journal articles
Bisexual Men Living with HIV: Wellbeing, Connectedness and the Impact of Stigma. <
Power, J., Amir, S., Lea, T., Brown, G., Lyons, A., Carman, M., Rule, J., & Bourne, A. (2021).
Antiretroviral therapy use, viral detectability and fear of onward transmission among people living with HIV in Australia: Changes between 1997 and 2018.
Norman, T., Bourne, A., Lyons, A., & Rule, J., & Power, J. (2022).
Health literacy, financial insecurity and health outcomes among people living with HIV in Australia.
Power, J., Lea, T., Melendez-Torres, G. J., Lyons, A., Norman, T., Hill, A. O, & Bourne, A. (2022).
Sexual satisfaction among people living with HIV in the era of biomedical prevention: enduring impacts of HIV-related stigma?
Norman, T., Bourne, A., Thepsourinthone, J., Murphy, D., Rule, J., Melendez-Torres, G.J., & Power, J. (2024).
The Relationship between Access to Peer Support Programs and Quality of Life among People Living with HIV in Australia.
Thepsourinthone, J., Norman, T., Murphy, D., & Power, J. (2025).
The intersection of HIV and migration: conceptualising quality of life among Asian-born men who have sex with men living with HIV in Australia.
Norman, T., Power, J., Yu Hsiang Chen, J., Ferguson, N., Canita, E., Istiko, S. N., Xiao, B. J., Rule, J., Murphy., D., Bourne, A. (2025).
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Partners and funding
HIV Futures is funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care, and produced in partnership with the National Association of People with HIV Australia (NAPWHA), the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations (AFAO), and ASHM.
Researchers
Thomas Norman, Jennifer Power, John Rule, Jimmy Yu-Hsiang Chen, Adam Bourne