Our female doctors and nurses support comprehensive sexual health testing as part of a regular, healthy sexual life and therefore all their support is without judgement, regardless of the testing outcome. Some of these tests can be done by you at the clinic, and some require blood tests that can be performed a short walk away from the clinic.

Should treatment or ongoing support be required due to the result of testing, this can be provided within Leichhardt Women’s Community Health Centre (LWCHC), or local referral pathways can be established closer to you.

Women at risk of HIV face unique challenges that require targeted support and resources, including access to comprehensive sexual education, awareness raising, and prevention of HIV transmission methods are crucial. Through education, advocacy, and accessible healthcare, we can work towards a future where all women have the resources, they need to stay healthy and HIV-free.

Benefits of HIV screening and testing:

The benefits of screening and testing for sexually transmitted infections and blood borne viruses are early treatment options, reducing infertility and healthy sex life. Awareness raising for professionals engaging with women who may be at risk of HIV transmission. Capacity raising for professionals who may not have considered heterosexual HIV transmission in their health practice, and feel uncertain about whether to encourage HIV testing, or what are best practice steps should a woman test positive.

Short Video “Could it be HIV?”

Leichhardt Women’s Community Health Centre have created a short video “Could it be HIV?” to assist in awareness raising for women’s HIV risk. This video is designed for women, community members and health professionals. The video contains information about importance of screening, who is at risk of HIV transmission and lived experience of HIV diagnosis within Australia.

Download the whole video or individual chapters:

Could It Be HIV – Video (34.27 mins)

Individual Chapters

• Could it be HIV – Introduction (6 mins) 

• Symptoms and Diagnosis (5.27 mins)

• Responding to the Diagnosis (4.50 mins) 

• Managing HIV (2.32 mins) 

• Support (2.54 mins) 

• The Importance of HIV testing (3.07 mins) 

• Preventing HIV Transmission (2.16 mins) 

• HIV and Having Children (33 seconds) 

• The Future (1.15 mins) 

• Legal Advice (3.57 mins) 

  
  

Thank you to the women and NSW services who participated in the making of the video, our project partner Pozhet and the funder Sydney Local Health District.

For all enquiries please contact us.