The State Government has removed funding from the HIV awareness group, Queensland Association for Healthy Communities (QAHC).

Health Minister Lawrence Springborg says he is taking personal control of HIV funding because previous campaigns have not worked.

Mr Springborg says annual HIV diagnosis rates in Queensland have doubled between 2000 and 2010.

"The majority of Queenslanders think that the issue of AIDS is well and truly under control and it is no longer an issue in the community," he said.

"That's not true, and indeed if we look at these AIDS infections rates, they're the highest since we started recording these particular records back in the 1980s."

QAHC says its mission is to promote the health and wellbeing of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Queenslanders.

It was receiving more than $2.5 million in grants each year to help prevent sexually transmitted diseases including HIV and other health problems.

The organisation says it is unfair to blame it for the rise in HIV cases, and that the move is a threat to the independence of the non-government health sector.

But it has welcomed a review of prevention strategies and says it wants to work with Mr Springborg.