MP calls for new AIDS awareness strategy

The Nationals' Member for Riverina, Kay Hull, says one of the biggest challenges in the fight against HIV and AIDS is to build awareness within younger generations.

Ms Hull has been appointed to the International Parliamentary Union's HIV/AIDS advisory group, after a request from the secretary-general of the union.

She says Australia needs to look at a new AIDS strategy as the current plan expires this month.

"There is still an extreme source of discrimination against HIV sufferers whether they be infected through activities they were responsible for or unknowingly infected," she said.

"Everyone has a right to treatment that ensures a quality of life, and ensures that health provisions to the best of our ability are provided."