Michel Sidibe, who was speaking at the Lowy Institute in Sydney, just recently said that the world is at a tipping point in the fight against HIV. Right now Australia can reject HIV positive permanent visa applicants if they are unable to meet health requirements. Also, they can be rejected if their condition is likely to result in significant costs to the community.

According to reports, Mr Sidibe is suppose to be meeting with government officials in the next few days. This does include the Prime Minister Julia Gillard. He will be urging Australia to consider changing the restrictions that are placed on people with HIV. He went on to say that he is surprised, because when he thinks of Australia, he thinks of a model of human rights. To known that Australia has restrictions on people with HIV, it is a bit painful.

An emigration department spokesman said that HIV positive people can and do migrate to Australia extremely regularly. However, Mr Sidibe went on to call on Australia to increase its financial commitment to the Global AIDS Fund.

Mr Sidbie also said that people are extremely scared by any reduction on funding in services for people living with HIV. He thinks that people need to not accept that the world will continue to have 7,000 new infections every day.

Of course, Sidbie did go on to call himself a dreamer. He has a challenge for Sydney, and he wants them to meet it. Overall, he wants to see Sydney, which does have the largest gay population in all of Australia, to reduce its infection rate to zero by 2015.