Editorial profile
About ACON
Our Purpose:
We create opportunities for people in our communities to live healthier, more connected lives.
Our Vision:
We strive to be a global leader in health, inclusion and HIV responses for all people in our communities.
Our Values:
COMMUNITY We are made for and by our community. Lived experience is at the heart of what do and guides our decision-making.
COLLABORATION We work meaningfully with, and value the expertise of, our communities, colleagues, partners and allies.
COMPASSION We acknowledge the stigma, discrimination and inequality our communities face. We hold these experiences with care and compassion as we conduct our work.
COURAGE We strive to be courageous in who we are and the ways we work, constantly evolving, and working with integrity to ensure the best possible outcomes for our communities.
EQUITY We recognise that improving health outcomes requires varying levels of investment to help rectify structural inequities. We strive to work with an intersectional lens to champion the needs of our communities, recognising the systems that compound diverse and overlapping circumstances.
We work for people of diverse sexualities, trans and gender diverse people, and people who are living with HIV.
Our beginnings are deeply embedded in NSW, including inner Sydney, Greater Western Sydney, and rural and regional NSW. We deliver some programs and services nationally, often in partnership. Digitally, our work is seen around the world.
We believe that the diverse experiences and backgrounds of people are vital to the strength and wellbeing of our communities. We know that health is influenced by the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age, and shape their access to power, money, and resources. These social determinants of health drive the inequities we seek to address.
Our services strive to honour the many intersecting identities and circumstances that shape our communities, be it HIV status, sexuality, gender, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander status, age, culture, disability, migration status, job, income or variations of sex characteristics.