Surveillance, epidemiology and behavioural research to guide HIV prevention policy.

Since 2000, HIV prevention in NSW has been overseen by a Health Promotion Sub-Committee of the Ministerial Advisory Committee on HIV and Sexually Transmissible Infections. The Sub-Committee meets quarterly, and its ongoing work demonstrates how reflexive interactions between researchers, community-based and public-sector educators and policy makers can enable the development and implementation of effective evidence-based policy. This facility is highlighted by the following two initiatives led by the Committee.