The Albion Centre in Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia | Medical and health

The Albion Centre

Locality: Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia

Phone: +61 2 9332 9600

Address: 150 Albion Street 2010 Surry Hills, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.thealbioncentre.org.au

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21.01.2022 Vale Geoff Honnor .

21.01.2022 People are doing it tough, and there has never been a more important time to ask friends, family, colleagues, neighbours and strangers R U OK? Important resources available at https://www.ruok.org.au

18.01.2022 Calling all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mob to have a #yarn about HIV in NSW! Have a say what is & isn't working for our mob. Call Michelle on (02) 9206 2177 or 1800 245 677 (freecall) or email [email protected] We want to hear from you!

18.01.2022 Albion is trying to improve client care. We may contact you soon via phone or text to discuss ways we can better support you.

17.01.2022 AFAO’s member organisation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities affected by HIV, the Anwernekenhe National HIV Alliance (ANA), has released a s...tatement on Black Lives Matter. You can also find the ANA’s statement on AFAO’s website, here: https://www.afao.org.au//anwernekenhe-national-hiv-allian/. Queensland Council for LGBTI Health - QC ACON Meridian - formerly AIDS Action Council Thorne Harbour Health TasCAHRD Red Thread Northern Territory AIDS & Hepatitis Council SAMESH WA AIDS Council NAPWHA Australian Injecting & Illicit Drug Users League - AIVL Scarlet Alliance - Australian Sex Workers Association

16.01.2022 KRC team being amazing as ever

16.01.2022 Currently, the phones to Albion Centre are not working. We are working with our provider and technicians to have the service restored as soon as possible. We apologise for any inconvenience this outage may cause.

15.01.2022 Positive Life NSW has announced that after 30+ years, David Crawford is to retire. The patients and staff of The Albion Centre wish David all the best in his retirement. David has made immeasurably important contributions to the wellbeing of people with HIV. ... He is always a most valuable resource so we can plan and deliver care that is most appropriate for our community.

13.01.2022 Calling Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mob living with HIV or at risk of HIV to have a yarn about HIV in NSW! Have a say what is & isn't working for our mob. Call Michelle on (02) 9206 2177 or 1800 245 677 (freecall) or [email protected] We want to hear from you!

12.01.2022 Completed your Covid19 Safety Plan yet? Sex Service Premises can download a template at https://www.nsw.gov.au/cov/industry-guidelines/sex-services Need Help? Call SWOP 02 9206 2166

12.01.2022 Today I learnt aboutThe Ugly. Under the banner Health for All, the Kirketon Road Centre (KRC) was established in 1987 to prevent, treat and care for HIV/AIDS... and other transmissible infections among vulnerable people whose behaviours were often stigmatised by mainstream health services. The ‘AIDS Bus’, as it was then referred to (but more affectionately known as ‘The Ugly’!), was established by The Albion Centre and launched in the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade in 1986 (participating every year since!) and transferred to KRC’s management in 1990. It was the first of its kind in the world to provide vital health services including free HIV testing, condoms and clean needles to the most hard-to reach among KRC’s target populations, nurses and health education officers, providing such care and support close to where and when people were at risk of acquiring HIV, sexually transmitted infections or viral hepatitis, late into the night. The Bus would park in several known street locations including Green Park opposite ‘The Wall’ in Darlinghurst where young men sex worked; El-Alamein Fountain in MacLeay St Kings Cross for female sex workers; Premier lane (which at that time was colloquially referred to as Tranny Lane) behind William Street in East Sydney where trans-women worked; and Lower Forbes Street on the Woolloomooloo side of William Street where female sex workers and trans-women worked. The Bus came to KRC along with two of its longstanding staff members: Damian Hull and Lizzie Griggs, who shared their extensive outreach expertise with KRC, laying the necessary groundwork for what would develop into one of Australia’s most comprehensive outreach programs over the next decade. This also ensured that the strong relationships they had built up with these most marginalised of all clients were maintained. Importantly, because they now also worked at KRC’s original fixed site on Kirketon Road in Darlinghurst, they were able to successfully refer these most hard-to-reach people to see them there where they could better address their more complex ongoing health needs - thereby removing one of the common barriers to health service access. Presented at the International AIDS conference in Montreal in 1986, the AIDS Bus was a model for other outreach health services for sex workers and people who use drugs in both San Francisco and New York. Featured in many forms of news media in the beginning, it also became a model for other mobile needle and syringe programs across Australia with many local, interstate, and international politicians and service providers visiting it over the years to see just how it works. With the sudden onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, there was an urgent need to provide COVID care to vulnerable communities. In response, KRC rapidly expanded its bus outreach program to offer COVID-19 testing, showing the versatility of this outreach mode of service provision. With its origins as nightly outreach with a number of stops in the Darlinghurst area, the KRC outreach bus now has a presence in multiple community locations across the Inner City and the South Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, ensuring that vulnerable communities have access to the same level of COVID-19 assessment, testing and follow up as the broader community. As you can see from the photos, the KRC Bus has had quite a few makeovers across the years and is not at all ‘Ugly’! But every day and night, it still heads out to deliver much-needed Health for All! KRC would like to acknowledge and thank Dr Ingrid van Beek and Lizzie Griggs for their generous contributions in preparing this post. #KRCHealth4All

09.01.2022 The Albion Centre is currently facilitating a popup COVID-19 testing clinic. The clinic is located at 349 Crown Street, Surry Hills (Cnr of Crown and Albion Streets) The COVID testing clinic is open 7 days a week from 9.00am till 4.00pm.... No appointment or referral required. Testing is available for adults and children aged 5 years and over.

09.01.2022 For all NSW #COVID19 testing clinics: https://t.co/jTvUjhQKWd https://t.co/FsBKfU93ta

09.01.2022 Positive Steps: Falls Prevention Program

08.01.2022 The Albion Centre is pleased to announce that The Ankali Project has been named in the annual Centre for Volunteering NSW Volunteer of the Year Awards as the Sydney City/Eastern Suburbs Volunteer Team of the Year for 2020. We congratulate the staff of The Ankali Project and all of the Ankali volunteers for their hard work and dedication.

08.01.2022 SEXtember | Did you see the Playsafe team down at UNSW on Wednesday? It's SEXtember a festival of celebrating, questioning and exploring every aspect of sex. Fo...r more information: https://student.unsw.edu.au/sextember Arc - UNSW Student Life UNSW Students See more

07.01.2022 Job opportunity

06.01.2022 Today is World Sexual Health Day. ASHM acknowledges the dedication and hard work of those working in the sexual health sector and the importance of promoting greater social awareness on sexual health across the globe. #WSHD2020

04.01.2022 ASHM's submission to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee to change the PBS criteria for prescribing #PrEP has been successful. Soon it will be easier... than ever to prescribe PBS-funded PrEP, making PrEP more accessible. Among the key changes: - the removal of restrictive high and medium HIV risk, and aligning it with the PrEP suitability criteria in the 2019 updated ASHM PrEP guidelines - the restriction level has been reduced from Authority Required to a Restricted Benefit to support broad access for patients who are at risk of HIV infection. Watch this space for further information about the changes, when they’ll come into effect and how this will impact our sector.