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2025-2026 Annual Report

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About Queensland
Positive People

About us

Our
strategic plan

About us

President and
CEO report

About us

Patron
statement

About us

Peer HIV/STI
prevention and testing

Delivering whole of life programs

Peer support
and navigation

Delivering whole of life programs

HIV treatment
and management

Delivering whole of life programs

Community
development
and education

Delivering whole of life programs

Ageing and
disability

Delivering whole of life programs

Stigma and
discrimination

Delivering whole of life programs

Funding
relief

Delivering whole of life programs

World
AIDS Day

Inclusive and innovative services

iLearn
stigma module

Inclusive and innovative services

Reaching our
community

Inclusive and innovative services

Diversity, Inclusion
and Belonging

Inclusive and innovative services

Volunteers

Enhancing relationships

State of the Nation

Enhancing relationships

Community events

Enhancing relationships

Membership

Enhancing relationships

Peer and
staff training

Best practice standards

Advocacy
work

Best practice standards

Supported
research

Best practice standards

Positioning QPP
for the future

Strengthening funding

Tributes

More of the year

Service to
our community

More of the year

Acknowledgements

More of the year

Financial
statements

More of the year

About us

About us

About Queensland Positive People

Strategic plan

Our 2021-2025 QPP Strategic Plan informs delivery of our whole of life programs, ensures our services and inclusive and innovative, promotes enhancing our relationships with our communities and stakeholders, whilst keeping us focused on maintaining best practice standards and strengthening our funding for the future. You can explore our progress towards our goals below.

President and CEO report

President and CEO Report 

This past year has brought into sharper focus both the extraordinary progress we have made and the challenges that remain, globally, nationally and here in Queensland.

A changing global HIV response

It is a pivotal period for the global HIV response. Decades of hard-won progress are increasingly fragile, with rising HIV notifications in parts of the Pacific, Philippines, Central Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe. This is occurring alongside reductions in international funding, increasing criminalisation and discrimination, persistent inequality and geopolitical change.

Yet the global community are sending strong messages of determination. Thirty years of effective antiretroviral therapy, the transformative impact of U=U, increasingly effective HIV PrEP, long-acting treatment and prevention, and continued vaccine and cure research demonstrate extraordinary scientific progress. However, HIV is not finished business, and science alone will not determine our future success.

The global HIV architecture is changing, with greater emphasis on domestic and regional leadership, integration with primary healthcare, sustainable financing and ensuring community leadership and human rights are protected as systems evolve. The challenge beyond 2030 is not to recreate the response of the past, but to build one that combines science, rights, sustainable investment, community leadership and equitable access.

Australia: protecting progress and responding to change

Here in Australia, QPP has continued to work closely with NAPWHA and our national network of peer-led HIV organisations across advocacy, policy and program development. Together, we have advocated for national expansion of HIV Peer Navigation Programs and identified emerging HIV and STI prevention and healthcare needs among people participating in the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) scheme.

We have also been closely monitoring changes in the legal and regulatory environment. At the same time, the rapidly changing digital environment is creating new challenges for community organisations. Social media regulation and platform changes have implications for sexual health promotion and our ability to reach communities, while staff and community members can be exposed to increasingly harmful online interactions. Working with our national peak organisations, we continue to consider how we protect people while ensuring trusted, evidence-based health information remains accessible.

QPP: growth, diversification and impact

For QPP, it has been another incredible year of achievement and growth. We have successfully diversified our funding, established new partnerships and expanded the scope of our services while remaining firmly grounded in our peer-led identity and our commitment to people living with HIV and affected communities.

The successful establishment of our Nurse Practitioner service has been a major milestone, expanding QPP’s clinical offering and strengthening our integrated approach to HIV and STI prevention, testing, treatment and care. We have continued to expand access to HIV self-testing across Queensland through our mail out and vending machine programs. We also transitioned chlamydia and gonorrhoea point of care testing sample processing from our in-house research model to Pathology Queensland, requiring significant operational and procedural change while maintaining continuity of service and the client experience.

A range of projects and partnerships have enabled us to reach new communities and respond to emerging needs. Our international student project strengthened engagement with multicultural communities. The PALS (Positive AOD Life Support) project has established new partnerships to explore alcohol and other drug experiences through community co-design, with funding now secured for its next phase. Our social connection activities have continued to grow, while Aged Care Navigation is now well integrated within QPP’s service offering.

Across all of this work, QPP has continued significant political and departmental engagement with the Queensland and Commonwealth Governments and maintained strong partnerships across the HIV sector. We have contributed to numerous research collaborations and shared our experience, evidence and learnings at a variety of conferences and forums.

Sustainability in a changing commissioning environment

This growth has occurred during a period of uncertainty around our core Queensland Health funding. Historically, longer-term service agreements have provided important stability for QPP and the communities we serve. Our current service agreement has instead been extended for 12 months to June 2027 while Queensland Health undertakes an NGO investment and market review to inform future commissioning of BBV and STI services.

While we would have welcomed the certainty of a longer-term agreement, we recognise the opportunity to consider future service needs, innovation and alignment with the Queensland BBV and STI Plans 2030. QPP will engage constructively and strongly in this process, advocating for commissioning arrangements that recognise the unique value of peer-led community organisations and provide the stability required to plan, retain skilled workforces and deliver high-quality services over the longer term.

Strengthening QPP for the future

Internally, we have also been preparing QPP for its next chapter. Our strategic planning process has established our direction for the next five years, while our successful accreditation audit, with only a small number of observations for continuous improvement, provides important assurance about the quality of our systems and services.

We have experienced a number of staff and leadership changes. While we have farewelled valued colleagues as they pursued personal and exciting professional opportunities, these movements have also created opportunities for internal promotion, leadership growth and new skills across QPP.

The year ahead will be another significant period of evolution. We will begin implementation of our new five-year Strategic Plan and strengthen the accountability, structures, roles and performance systems required to deliver it. As our community health and clinical services expand, we will also invest in the operational and digital infrastructure that sits behind them.

We are also delighted to have secured funding to establish a new statewide mental health and alcohol and other drug counselling service for people living with HIV and LGBTQIA+ communities. Delivered through telehealth alongside peer-led group programs online and in person, this represents another important expansion of QPP’s integrated community health and wellbeing services.

None of these achievements happen in isolation.

To the QPP team, thank you for your commitment, adaptability, expertise and care. To our Board, thank you for your stewardship, support and belief in our direction. To our government, research, clinical, community and funding partners, thank you for continuing to work alongside us.

Most importantly, thank you to people living with HIV and the diverse communities who use our services, participate in our programs, contribute to our research and co-design, share their experiences and hold us accountable. You remain at the heart of everything we do.

There is much to celebrate and much still to do. We enter the coming year with an ambitious new Strategic Plan, expanding services, strong partnerships and an extraordinary team. We are incredibly proud of what we have achieved together and excited about what we can achieve in the year ahead.

Dr Ed Pilling

President

Melissa Warner

Chief Executive Officer

Patron statement

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The Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG^*

Patron – Queensland Positive People

^*Former Justice of the High Court of Australia.  Patron of the Kirby Institute for Infection and Blood Borne Diseases (2011 – ); Members of the WHO Global Commission on AIDS (1989-1994); Commission of the UNAIDS Reference Group on HIV and Human Rights (2001 – 2017).

Delivering whole of life programs

Delivering whole of life programs

Peer HIV and STI prevention and point of care testing

RAPID – Expanding and Impacting

We continued to provide a high-quality service for 6,378 clients over 7,912 occasions of service, providing 28,196 tests for HIV, syphilis, chlamydia and gonorrhoea.

Within our testing clinic and outreach services we identified:

• 10 HIV point-of-care test (POCT) reactives
• 45 Syphilis POCT reactives
• 662 Chlamydia detections
• 341 Gonorrhoea detections

Key demographics included:

• 2,393 (30.3%) of clients identified as gay, bisexual or men who have sex with men
• 134 (1.7%) self identified as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander
• 4,756 (60.1%) were born overseas
• 2,961 (37.4%) were not eligible for Medicare
• 1,505 (19.0%) people were born overseas, English not being their first language and have been in Australia for less than 5 years, and of those 642 (42.7%) had never tested, or not tested in the last 12 months.

With the commencement of the Nurse Practitioner (NP) clinic, we have seen a reduction in people being turned away at the door, as people presenting with symptoms can now be seen.

Our outreach services at Wet Spa and Sauna and University of Queensland continue, and have been supported further by additional testing options via vending machines and targeted testing for international students.

With the increased promotion of both the CONNECT vending machines and HIV self-test mail out program, RAPID have had the opportunity to provide in-service sessions and education to other organisations and services, raising further awareness of services and key prevention strategies.

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Nurse Practitioner service

The Nurse Practitioner (NP) clinic provides a continuum of care within QPP from asymptomatic screening currently at RAPID, the NP can provide symptomatic HIV and STI testing, and treatment, as well as support for people living with HIV as an S100 provider and improving access for people that may experience barriers to mainstream service options, and linkage into QPP’s  Life+ Program for Peer navigation and case management.

HIVST Mail-out program

CONNECT and QPP HIV test kit vending machines

Pathology Queensland partnership

Since 2017, RAPID has provided chlamydia (CT) and gonorrhoea (NG) screening using molecular point-of-care testing under ethics approval. With no foreseeable regulatory pathway permitting peers to continue this testing, we have pursued a sustainable alternative: peer-led, intra-client pooled specimen collection with laboratory analysis.

In July 2025, QPP partnered with Pathology Queensland to validate the Abbott Alinity m STI assay for pooled samples. RAPID provided 118 samples overall (32 reactive CT, 31 reactive NG, 4 dual (CT/NG) and 52 non-reactive). Results exceed previous thresholds with 98.2% concordance for pooled vs individual, and 97% concordance with CT/NG detected cases.

From December 2025, this became our business-as-usual model, with samples being pooled onsite and sampling taking place at an external PQ site.

Findings from the partnership have been presented via posters at ASHM SRH 2025 and 2026.

ViiV Healthcare funded English language school and Latin American project

QPP received a ViiV Healthcare Positive Action Community Grant in 2023, for a peer-led HIV/STI testing and education project targeting recently settled Latin American migrants in Brisbane.

Challenges with English Language Schools prevented the establishment of on-campus testing, despite outreach to 13 language schools, TAFE Queensland and three service providers. In response, QPP adapted the project by establishing a dedicated RAPID clinic and expanding its focus to international students and the broader Latin American community.

Activities included multilingual clinic services and online resources, social media promotion, outreach at the Brisbane Brazilian Carnival, and a multilingual testing initiative at the University of Queensland.

Overall, 92 people were tested: 59 through RAPID and 33 at UQ. Seven infections—six chlamydia and one syphilis—were detected, with all affected clients referred for treatment. Of 81 assessed participants, 43 (53.1%) were born in non-English speaking countries, recently arrived and with little to no testing history.

All clients received culturally appropriate education on U=U, PrEP, PEP and accessing healthcare without Medicare. Online resources attracted 433 visitors and 744 page views, while one language school added sexual-health information to its student handbook.

Although school-based testing was not achieved, the adapted approach successfully reached priority communities, identified infections and connected clients with treatment.

A poster was presented at the 2025 ASHM HIV/AIDS Conference for this project.

Peer support and navigation

Peer navigation and services

HIV treatment and management

Life+ case management

Community development and education

Community development and social groups

QPP social groups provide ongoing support for people who are living with HIV in Queensland and central to our mission to build a community free from stigma.

The social groups can act as an entry point to QPP formal supports or a follow- on step down, or it can be just a place to feel connected and belong with people of similar lived experience. We have hosted five ongoing monthly groups in Brisbane and eight in regional centres around Queensland, with a total of 94 group events. We had 735 attendances across the monthly groups in the 12 month period, which is showing again strong growth from the previous year, clearly demonstrating the interest and value that social connection provides.

QPP also delivered a series of ten topical workshops for people living with HIV under the banner “Thrive”. Themes focussed on living well with HIV included self-care and stress management, addressing stigma, disclosure and healthy relationships, and aging with HIV. The workshops attracted 122 total attendances across the 10 workshops.

We’d like to thank the Brisbane Lord Mayor’s Charitable Trust for providing funding for the Thrive workshop series, and our end of year social group event through their community grant scheme.

Positive AOD Life Support (PALS) project

HIV diagnosis is not simply the moment a person is told they have HIV, but a period of adjustment that may extend for up to 24 months. This period includes several critical points at which conversations about AOD use, harm reduction and available support can occur.

Ageing and disability

Aged Care Navigation

Better Connect+ – fun activities, but not solo

Stigma & discrimination

The QPP and the HIV/AIDS Legal Service partnership continues to demonstrate community need

Despite improved health outcomes for people living with HIV, misunderstandings about HIV mean stigma and discrimination remain significant challenges for the community.  

The QPP/HALC partnership enables Queenslanders living with HIV to access legal information, advice, referrals, assistance with legal tasks and representation services where the matter directly relates to their HIV status. Representation services include assistance with visa applications and discrimination and/or privacy complaints as well as dispute resolution services and attendance at courts/tribunals relating to HIV and immigration, discrimination, disclosure, employment, child protection, domestic violence, financial and consumer matters.   

In 2025-26, the QPP/HALC partnership provided legal advice and legal representation services to 99 people living with HIV in Queensland. Most of these clients were born overseas. Many of these clients were interacting with the immigration system, were homeless or at risk of homelessness, were experiencing financial disadvantage, or were experiencing or at risk of family violence. 

Services included legal information to improve legal literacy for people living with HIV, tailored legal advice, and assistance with legal tasks. Ongoing representation was provided to clients with legal matters directly related to their HIV status where they could not afford private representation, and where there was not another suitable service to refer them to.  These services were in a range of areas, including discrimination, wills and estate planning, immigration (skilled visas and protection visa), unfair dismissal and other employment-related issues.

We distributed copies of our latest QPP Disclosure Guide, which provides up-to-date information on the legal requirements surrounding disclosure of HIV status to employers, sexual partners, insurers and other external parties.

Funding relief for people living with HIV

Continuing positive impact: the HOPE Fund’s year of community support and empowerment

Seven people living with HIV were supported through The HOPE Fund in 2025/2026 with the total amount awarded being $6,573.21.

The balance of The HOPE Fund at 30 June 2026, after all grants were awarded and paid, was $77,110.41.

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We extend our deepest gratitude to our committee, our partners, donors, volunteers, and the incredible individuals we serve. Your support, passion, and dedication are the driving forces behind this initiative.

Easing the impact of the increasing cost of living – the Emergency Treatment Fund (ETF)

The Emergency Treatment Fund (ETF) is a QPP-managed program, funded annually by Queensland Health, that provides short-term financial assistance to people living with HIV in Queensland who are experiencing financial hardship, including those who are ineligible for Medicare. The fund aims to support early and sustained engagement in HIV treatment and related services.

Assistance may cover clinical consultations, medication costs, food, communication expenses (e.g., phone credit), travel, and emergency accommodation. Requests for other essential expenses that could affect treatment adherence are also considered.

In the past year, the ETF supported 100 people living with HIV—86 Medicare-eligible and 14 Medicare-ineligible individuals. This is an almost 10% increase in supported clients over the 2024–2025 financial year, with overall expenditure a little lower. However, the need for assistance with food (including baby formula) significantly increased again, with housing and medications continuing to represent a large proportion of other requests for support..

Increasing support for increasing needs – the CCF

The CCF is an annual grant provided by Queensland Health to QPP, aimed at supporting people living with HIV who have complex needs. To access the fund, individuals must be referred to QPP by the HIV Public Health Team. The fund’s primary purpose is to offer practical assistance that helps remove barriers preventing engagement in HIV treatment and care.

The CCF supported 45 people living with HIV on 104 occasions, with assistance covering areas such as medication, housing, transport, accommodation, and communication needs. This continues the trend for increased support from the CCF that presented in the previous financial year.

Applications to the fund are submitted by HIV Public Health Team and QPP case managers on behalf of those receiving collaborative support. A committee, consisting of representatives from QPP and the Communicable Diseases Branch, is responsible for assessing these applications.

Inclusive and innovative services

Inclusive and innovative services

World AIDS Day

World AIDS Day 2025 – No one left behind

Held on 1 December, World AIDS Day is the longest-running awareness initiative of its kind. Since 1988, World AIDS Day and the iconic red ribbon have raised awareness about issues surrounding HIV/AIDS and commemorated those lost to the pandemic. While awareness and community education are prioritised, funds raised for World AIDS Day across Queensland are donated to The HOPE Fund.

The national theme for World AIDS Day 2025 was “No one left behind”. This theme reflects the inequities in HIV prevention, testing, treatment, and quality of life—particularly for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds, and marginalised communities, including those in regional and remote areas across Australia. ​ This theme calls for a united commitment, alongside the community, to creating supportive environments where health outcomes are equitable for all people living with HIV.

World AIDS Day Awareness Campaign

QPP, in partnership with the Queensland Council for LGBTI Health (QC) and the Queensland World AIDS Day Alliance (QWADA)—and led by the HIV-positive voice—continued our curated messaging to reflect the ongoing HIV response.

Our multi-language World AIDS Day awareness social media campaign reached over 375,500 people with almost 571,000 impressions, building further reach on top of previous years’ records.

This campaign featured a series of messages developed to raise awareness, inspire remembrance, and provide contextual health information about HIV. It was delivered in English, Portuguese, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, and newly added this year Indonesian.

To accompany our social media campaign, our World AIDS Day digital billboard and street media campaign achieved a total of approximately 100,000 views during HIV Awareness Week (64,000) and on World AIDS Day (36,000).

A total of 33 boards and sites displayed the colourful creative during this period right across Queensland, with an additional two iconic sites in high-exposure locations in Brisbane added on World AIDS Day. These locations included Albany Creek, Browns Plains, Bundaberg, Bundamba, Burleigh Waters, Caboolture, Cairns, Carseldine, Chapel Hill, Clifton Beach, Coorparoo, Eagle Farm, Emerald, Fortitude Valley, Gympie, Hermit Park, Ipswich, Maryborough, Mission Beach, Mount Isa, Rockhampton, South Brisbane, South Toowoomba, St George, Surfers Paradise, Townsville City, Upper Mount Gravatt, and Virginia.

A media pack featuring World AIDS Day messages—including Wear the Red Ribbon, U=U, PrEP, HIV Support, and Stigma & Discrimination was made available for download in six languages, anchored by the ‘It starts with me’ message.

World AIDS Day Events

Once again, QPP supported the Queensland Council for LGBTI Health (QC) to deliver in-person World AIDS Day events that provided opportunities for remembrance and raised awareness around the day’s core themes.

The Brisbane Candlelight Vigil, hosted by QC, was held at Loyal Hope Hall in Fortitude Valley. QPP assisted QC by MCing the vigil, with QPP’s President, Ed Pilling, delivering an impactful address. The vigil was attended by more than 200 people, including dignitaries, community members, and healthcare professionals.

The Cairns Vigil, held at the Cairns Esplanade, was attended by at least 40 community members, with members of the QPP team playing important roles in the service.

Both candlelight vigils included a reading of lives lost to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, commemorating those the community has honoured and remembered throughout the 40+ year history, and offered spaces for the community to gather afterward.

Many buildings and structures around the state were illuminated in red throughout World AIDS Week and on World AIDS Day, with local councils and the Queensland Government once again continuing their support.

QPP and QC also worked collaboratively to implement and promote the Regional Grants Program, with one grant awarded to the Gold Coast Pride Collective for their ‘Gold Coast World AIDS Day Memorial’ gathering.

While the number of grant applications was noticeably lower for the 2025 events, an additional four regional events received in-kind assistance from QC and QPP for promotion, resources, and organisation. These events raised awareness, provided opportunities for remembrance, and amplified the HIV-positive voice through:

• World AIDS Day Information Stall – Mulungu Mareeba (1/12/25)
• Sunshine Coast World AIDS Day Morning Tea – QC Naamba (1/12/25)
• Toowoomba World AIDS Day Morning Tea – QC Toowoomba (1/12/25)
• Townsville World AIDS Day Vigil – QC Gurambilbarra (1/12/25)

World AIDS Day Parliamentary Breakfast

iLearn stigma module

Reaching our community

Being a source of truth in a shifting landscape

The past year has brought seismic shifts to the HIV landscape, from major breakthroughs in long-acting prevention and treatments to policy shocks and funding reductions worldwide. The rapidly changing communications and social media landscape is no different, we have witnessed morphing algorithms, fierce platform competition, and the rapid rise of AI.

With these changes comes progress, but also significant challenges.

People living with HIV and our allies are no strangers to stigma, misinformation, and online harassment. Today, these threats extend beyond individuals tapping away in the dark, they are driven by automated spam networks, bot fleets, and server farms. Armed with misleading medical claims and synthetic media, they thrive on “click-to-anger” content consumption.

While this may sound daunting, there is a clear path forward. The most effective way to combat misinformation is to provide accurate, up-to-date, and trusted information wherever people seek it.

Once again, QPP’s digital platforms reached record engagement this year. Nearly 100,000 people visited a QPP websites or pages to learn about HIV, support services, testing, treatment, and prevention. Furthermore, our accurate, stigma-free content served as a trusted reference for major search engines and AI models, generating over four million impressions throughout the year.

We also continued our strong investment in accessible print resources. From our HIV Disclosure Guide to The Facts series, materials were distributed across Queensland. Our HIV and Hepatitis Stigma learning module was promoted to healthcare workers, police, corrections personnel, government agencies, and the general public. Additionally, we developed dedicated resources and a new website for The PALS Project, supporting people living with HIV who use alcohol and other drugs, and upgraded the QPP Shop to make ordering all resources free and seamless.

Over the past year, we have remained a voice for those who cannot safely speak for themselves, bringing visibility to our diverse community. We will continue to evolve, listen, and serve as the trusted source of truth for our community and the public.

Diversity, inclusion and belonging

Awareness into action

Queensland Positive People thrives on the diverse cultures, identities, and lived experiences of our clients and community members. Harnessing these perspectives allows us to deliver flexible, high-quality care that truly meets people’s needs.

For us, inclusion is an active, evolving process. We embed these values directly into our systems and policies so every employee and client feels genuinely respected and supported. Guided by our values and Queensland’s Human Rights Act 2019, we are accountable for sustaining a safe, inclusive workplace culture. Cultivating belonging is a collective responsibility vital to an equitable future.

We remain committed to turning the awareness of privilege into tangible actions that break down barriers, uplift underrepresented voices, and drive real progress.

QPP acknowledges and respects Nigooli as the custodian of the cultural knowledge represented on the artwork featured above and in our Reconciliation Action Plan.

Key actions in 2025–2026 included:

• Implementation of our Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP).
• Implementation of a Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging Policy.
• Implementation of a First Nations Cultural Responsiveness Policy.
• Implementation of the Reasonable Adjustments Policy and Procedures.

Priorities for the next two years:

• Continue reviewing QPP systems through the lens of anti-discrimination and inclusion.
• Continue to implement the Innovate RAP.
• Leverage diverse perspectives in service delivery design through the Community Advisory Group.
• Ensure safe, inclusive practices and a workforce that reflects the communities we serve.

Inclusion isn’t a one-time checklist at QPP, it’s built into how we work, lead, and support our communities every day. Our steady progress throughout 2025–2026 highlights this ongoing focus, and our future goals will keep equity and respect central to who we are as an organisation.

Enhancing relationships

Enhancing relationships

Volunteers

2026-2031 QPP Strategic Plan co-design

Community Advisory Group

Thank you to our wonderful volunteers 

State of the Nation

Community events

The CWC Cabaret

In August 2025 and March 2026, long time venue and supporter, The Sportsman Hotel was once again filled to capacity for our Citizens Welfare Committee (CWC) Charity Cabarets. These events, a much-anticipated highlight of the Brisbane drag scene, have been running every year for more than 30 years, helping to raise much-needed funds for people living with HIV in Queensland. A unique and diverse cavalcade of almost 40 performers, donate their time, talent, and enthusiasm all to raise funds and support QPP.

Both events included an array of drag identities from all Brisbane queer venues, as well as some of Queensland’s best-loved performers from years gone by. Betty Nature was the master of ceremonies, performer, and organiser extraordinaire for this year’s events, as they have been for over 30 years.

With Betty at the helm, all of the performers, and with the generous raffle donations from both The Den Fortitude Valley and The Sportsman Hotel and other local businesses, the two events raised a total of $2,900.32. Their contributions, together with the generosity of the patrons, help us raise funds that make a substantive impact to the quality of life of people living with HIV in Queensland today.

In sad news however, just prior to the March CWC beloved DJ at The Sportsman Hotel Merlin passed away. DJ Merlin (Glenn Price) through his 25 years at Sporties was a passionate supporter of the CWC Cabaret. He was an icon of the Brisbane drag community, and is deeply missed.

We thank Betty and all the performers, sponsors, and patrons for their continuing support of CWC. The proceeds help provide peer support events and activities that foster empowerment and resilience by enhancing self-esteem and social connectedness among our diverse, and sometimes isolated, positive community.

You can keep up to date with the next CWC event by following the Facebook page.

Membership

Become a QPP member

Best practice standards

Best practice standards

Peer and staff training

Staff training and professional development helps us better serve our community

Advocacy

Elevating Voices, Driving Change: QPP’s Advocacy Impact

Supported research

QPP research activities

Strengthening funding

Strengthening funding

Positioning QPP for the future

QPP’s role in integrated community led healthcare

More from the year

More from the year

Tributes

Vale Larah Seivl-Keevers

Larah was a truly special human. Those who worked alongside her will remember her gentleness and warmth, her strength and sharp mind, and the way she brought joy and humour into everyday moments. She had a calm, kind presence that made people feel safe, supported and cared for, and of course, many of us will remember her for her famous chicken soup.

She was a passionate about everything she did, of which there were so many hobbies and interests. This passion also reflected in the her advocacy for people living with HIV. She was a ally, an educator, and a friend. Larah leaves a lasting impact. She was deeply valued, not just for the work she did at QPP, but for the kindness and humanity she brought into the organisation and our community.

We extend our heartfelt condolences to Larah’s family, friends, and all who loved her.  

Service to our community

Thank you for your service to QPP and our communities

Over the past 12 months, we bid farewell to five long standing team members Chris, Jeremy, Melania, Michael and Steve who were with us for many years. Together they contributed 44 impactful years to the positive community, bringing a unique combination of skill, warmth, and unyielding energy to QPP.

Driven by deep empathy and an uncompromising commitment to human rights, dignity, and peer-led care, they carried out their work with the utmost professionalism and heart. Whether fighting to eliminate stigma, navigating complex care systems, or offering steadfast day-to-day support, they embodied the core values of QPP at every turn. While we miss their daily presence, we are immensely grateful for their years of service and wish them the absolute best in their next chapters.

We would also like to extend our sincere thanks to David for his valued service and contribution to the QPP Board. His commitment, insight and support have been greatly appreciated, and we thank him for the time and expertise he has generously contributed to QPP and our communities. We wish David all the very best for the future.

Some of the many people and organisations we would like to thank

Financial Statements