AIVL-Australian Injecting & Illicit Drug Users League Ltd.

AIVL, the Australian Injecting and Illicit Drug Users League, is the national peer-led peak organisation representing our network of peer-based harm reduction and Drug User Organisations. AIVL’s primary role is to elevate the voices of people affected by hepatitis C/people who inject drugs in Australia, develop the harm reduction peer workforce, and develop policy and program informed by people with lived-living experience of hepatitis C. AIVL, the Australian Injecting and Illicit Drug Users League, was formed in the late 1980s by a group of people with experience of illicit drug use and injecting drug use, many of them involved in state and territory Drug User Organisations (DUOs), that came together, during the HIV health crisis of the early to mid-1980s, to coordinate the development of a consolidated PWUD voice at a national level. AIVL is funded through the Australian Department of Health and Aged Care as the peer-led hepatitis C response peak organisation. AIVL was the first organisation to express the situation with hepatitis C affecting people who inject drugs in Australia. For over 30 years, AIVL has led the hepatitis C response nationally, advised the department, and ensured the roll out of peer education programs, resources, and services promoting DAA to our communities. AIVL also supported the work of lived-living network in the Asia-Pacific region in collaboration with DFAT. The members of the AIVL network are service-delivery state and national organisations tackling hepatitis C and improving the health and wellbeing of our communities.