From October 3, eligible people living with HIV in Queensland will no longer be required to pay the patient co-payment for HIV medication.

From the 1^st July 2023, ODT medicines became available as part of the Section 100 Highly Specialised Drugs (Community Access) arrangements, meaning that ODT medicines will now be prescribed, ordered, supplied (dispensed) and remunerated like other PBS medicines under these arrangements.

This program aims to reduce the incidence of blood-borne viruses and injecting related injuries and disease, by supplying sterile injecting equipment to injecting drug users with the aim of ensuring users do not share needles.