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The National AIDS Archive Collection documents the history of AIDS education and prevention and related concerns in all Australian states, territories and nationally. It contains material from a wide range of government agencies, community-based organisations and individuals. It includes significant holdings of printed material, audio-visual material and ephemera.
As well as records of broad-ranging interest, the National AIDS Archive Collection contains records that are specifically oriented towards particular communities and concerns. Some of the targeted communities include the gay community, church groups, sex industry workers, people from non-English speaking backgrounds, indigenous Australians, intravenous drug users, and people living with HIV/AIDS. Specific concerns addressed include women's health, haemophilia, workplace health and safety, prisons, and safe sex.
This is a list of material we hold in the National AIDS Archive Collection. Several deposits are restricted and you will need the depositor's permission to use them.
Collection index
| Deposit name | Deposit number | Date range |
Quantity in shelf metres |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| General library reference material | H1 | 1985 - 1995 | 1.4 | General reference items on AIDS in Australia as a whole. Included are catalogue listings from libraries, chronologies, personal research work and bibliographies of researchers. |
| Commonwealth Government Products |
H2 | 1985 - 2008 | 9.3 | An artificial collection, mostly publications, plus posters and AV material produced by the Commonwealth Health Department and successor agencies, AIDS Education Unit, Communicable Diseases Branch. A small number of publications are from other Commonwealth agencies. All relate to the HIV/AIDS education campaign. |
| Non Commonwealth Government Products | H3 | 1986 - 1994 | 14.7 | An artificial collection of all forms of printed material including posters, plus AV material produced by non Commonwealth government bodies as part of the HIV/AIDS education campaign. |
| Family Planning Federation of Australia |
H4 | 1968 - 1992 | 20.1 | Minutes, files and papers relating to administration, policy, education, contraception, finance, statistics, publicity, committees and related bodies including the South Pacific Family Planning programs and the International Planned Parenthood Federation. |
| Australian IV League (AIVL) |
H5 | 1988 - 1992 | 2.25 | Minutes, reports, conference and workshop papers, correspondence, subject, and general files, press cuttings and publications. |
| Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations (AFAO) |
H6 and H24 | 1985 - 2014 | 39 | Policy records, minutes, project and subject files covering the major activities of the Federation, files from the Legal Rights Project Office and publications. Also includes |
| Haemophilia Foundation of Australia (HFA) includes predecessors |
H7 | 1977 - 1993 | 9.9 | Council Executive,and Conference papers, correspondence with interstate societies and overseas bodies, general and research files, AIDS related files and papers, publications, press cuttings, audio-visual items and records of predecessors of the Australian Federation of Haemophilia Societies and the Haemophilia Society of Victoria. |
| AIDS Action Council of the ACT |
H8 | 1984 - 1994 | 15 | Board minutes, policy and project files, correspondence and printed material. Includes records of People Living with AIDS ACT and the National People Living with AIDS Coalition. |
| Phil Carswell Papers | H9 and H18 | 1983 - 1993 | 3 | Personal papers of Phil Carswell documenting his membership of the Victorian AIDS Council, NACAIDS, ANCA, and other AIDS related bodies from 1983. Papers relate to AIDS policy, programs and work in this field with Ggovernment and community liaison. |
| Geoffrey Harrison Papers |
H10 | 1973 - 1993 | 7.35 | Personal papers of Geoffrey Harrison covering his work as a publicist in the Performing Arts field and his involvement as a campaigner and advocate on treatments, policy and education publicist in HIV/AIDS community and national organisations. Includes files, albums, diaries, posters, audiotapes and cassettes. |
| Public Health Association. (PHA) |
H11 | 1968 - 1998 | 10.65 | Meetings papers, annual reports, correspondence and publications files, conference papers, membership lists, publications and papers about workshops, special interest groups and related organisations. |
| Magnus, Nankervis and Curl |
H12 | 1985 - 1990 | 0.9 | Records relating exclusively to the contract this company held to devise Phase 2 advertising campaigns for the National AIDS Education Program, 1987-1990. Includes general files, media proposals, questionnaires, scripts production documentation and research papers. |
| ACTUP Melbourne (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) |
H13 | 1990 - 1993 | 0.45 | Files about Melbourne campaign, publicity and planning, inter-organisational campaign papers plus news and publicity material from overseas organisations. This collection consists of copies of records retained by ACTUP. |
| AIDS Trust of Australia (ATA) |
H14 | 1987 - 1992 | 2 | Trustees meetings papers, correspondence and subject files re donations, fundraising, sales, agreements and various activities; press releases, press cuttings, AIDS information papers and reports. |
| Scarlet Alliance | H15 | 1988 - 1993 | 2.1 | Subject files covering all aspects of their activities, meetings and conference papers, reports and submissions; documentation relating to sex worker rights, other sex worker organisations, and HIV/AIDS here and overseas. |
| Churches AIDS Pastoral Care & Education Program (CAPE) |
H16 | 1988 - 1993 | 2 | History of the program, Committee of Management records, papers re sub-committees, correspondence and subject files, Youth Conference papers, kits and publications. |
| AIDS Society of ASIA and the Pacific (ASAP) |
H17 | 1989 - 1992 | 1.2 | Aims, rules, Executive Committee and conference papers and files re programs and activities. |
| Bill Bowtell Papers | H19 | 1984 - 1994 | 3.3 |
Files documenting Bill Bowtell's involvement in HIV/Aids policy and administration (1983-93). He was Senior Policy advisor to the Health Minister (1983-86), and involved with ANCA, AFAO and other bodies. |
| National Association of People Living with AIDS (formerly NPLWAC) |
H20 | 1991 - 1993 | 1.2 | Classified file series covering aspects of the work of this organisation. |
| Index to archived documents of Greg Weir | H21 | 1995 | 0.1 | An index to documents deposited in the National Library of Australia as MS 8915. MS 8915 comprises 25 files of correspondence, articles, cuttings, reports, minutes, posters and other papers assembled by Greg Weir during twenty years of political activism. A list of the contents of MS 8915 is at http://www.nla.gov.au.virtual.anu.edu.au/ms/findaids/8915.html |
| Counselling notes | H22 | 1983 - 1986 | 0.2 | Notes made by Terry Goulden during his work at St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney. |
| AIDS in Australia | H23 | 1980s - 1990s | 25 | Newspaper cuttings, research papers on AIDS in Australia compiled by Dr John Ballard. |
| Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations Deposit 2 | H24 | 1985 - 2014 | 28 | Minutes of the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations and affiliated members, correspondence files, National and International conference programs and papers, policy files, legal files, National and International project files, Government and Non-Government liaison, medical research and treatments programs, educational resources, publications, audiovisual and printed material. |
| H25 | 1997 | 0.1 | A poster from the New Zealand AIDS Foundation. |
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