 At the end of 2017, 27 545 people were estimated to be living with HIV in Australia.20 922 infections were attributable to male‐to‐male sex exposure, 6 245 to heterosexual sex, 605 to injecting drug use, and 168 to ‘other’ exposures (vertical transmission to newborn, blood/tissue recipient, healthcare setting, haemophilia/coagulation disorder).AIDS is no longer considered an epidemic or a public health issue in Australia, due to the success of anti-retroviral drugs and extremely low HIV-to-AIDS progression rates.