Levinia Crooks Chief Executive Officer – ASHM for the Annual ASHM Board Planning M eeting

1. ASHM National Strategy Workshopan approach to extending the current strategies moving toward the 2013 budget cycle Levinia Crooks Chief Executive Officer – ASHM for the Annual ASHM Board Planning Meeting 22 May 2012

2. The National Strategies • 6th HIV Strategy • 3rd Hepatitis C and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander BBV & STI Strategies • 2nd Sexually Transmissible Infections Strategy • 1st Hepatitis B Strategy

3. Shared common ground • Roles and responsibilities of partners • Mechanisms through which work is performed • Common guiding principles and goal of reducing transmission, morbidity and mortality • Reliance on: • surveillance, • research and • workforce development • Priority populations tailored to each strategy, with a key focus on Indigenous Australians • The major objectives follow common themes

4. Individualised approaches • Specific objectives and indicators in • prevention • treatment • Population groups exhibit differential vulnerability to the various conditions and this is reflected in each strategies • Priority action areas • Translated into implementation plans

5. Approach to the workshop • The workshop will allow us to review the budgetary and strategy development process • Consider modelling in relation to the strategies • Hear from key commentators and practitioners • Small group discussions aimed at proposing key features of the next iteration of the strategies

6. Strategy process • Cyclical, ordinarily tied to the budget process and variously including: • mid-term reviews • internal and external evaluations • extensions to terms • development of next strategy and approval process

7. Where are we at with current Strategies? • Shared and individualised features of the current strategies are still valid: • Principles, goals etc and approaches • Priority populations and areas for action • Current strategies are sufficiently robust to allow for supplementary statements or updating to accommodate changes in evidence: • Science • Environment • Epidemiology • Treatment

8. Proposed direction • Supplementary or updating statements should be drafted and agreed against each of the strategies where needed. • Additional statements could include numeric targets as indicated from emerging evidence • Current strategies, with these additional statements and possible targets, should be extended to cover the 2013 – 2016 budgetary cycle

9. What would updated Strategies look like? • The Strategies are predominantly electronic • Revisions could go at the front of each Strategy indicating changed sections • Changes in body text could be highlighted (this is the approach taken with the Testing Policies and portal and other electronic guidelines) • This would allow for subsequent updating suggested in Guiding Principles • A separate summary document could present changes across all Strategies