One of the key areas of AFAO’s work is the development and national implementation of HIV and STI prevention and health promotion programs. This work is carried out by the AFAO-NAPWA Education Team (ANET) in consultation and cooperation with the AFAO and NAPWA membership.

ANET upholds the principles of a community-based response to HIV, through which gay men and other men who have sex with men, Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander people, and people living with HIV work collaboratively and in partnership with their communities to build effective, sustainable and appropriate responses to the HIV epidemic.

The purpose of our health promotion is to strengthen populations, communities and individuals so that they can enjoy health, well-being and a good quality of life as a way for achieving their potential in other parts of their lives. AFAO does this through adhering to the principles of the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion  (i.e. building healthy public policy, creating supportive environments, strengthening community action, developing personal skills, and reorienting health services) and by addressing the underlying social determinants of health through lobbying and advocacy, and sound policy development.

The AFAO-NAPWA Education Team’s work includes:

• Social marketing and social media campaign development
  
  
• Producing print and web-based resources and information
  
  
• Developing and delivering training and other capacity-building activities for the Australian HIV health promotion sector, and
  
  
• Providing national coordination and strategies for the effective development, implementation and evaluation of HIV prevention and HIV-positive health promotion initiatives