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Australia’s Annual Sexual Health Check Up: STIs are mostly down, but reductions in testing could be the cause

In HIV, Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)

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Kirby Institute (UNSW) – released Thursday 8 December 2022 Data released last month by the Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney reveals how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted testing and diagnoses of sexually transmissible infections (STI) in Australia. The report titled HIV, viral hepatitis and sexually transmissible infections in Australia: Annual surveillance report shows that in 2021 there...

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New report: Surveillance of STIs and Blood-Borne Viruses in South Australia, 2018

By J Pope

In Hepatitis, HIV, Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)

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Communicable Disease Control Branch, SA Health, July 2019 In 2018, there were 8,556 new notifications of STI and BBV in South Australia. This represents a 3% increase in the number of new notifications compared to notifications received in 2017. In 2018, there were 6,256 notifications of Chlamydia trachomatis (chlamydia) making this the most commonly notified STI in South Australia. The...

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Surveillance of sexually transmitted infections and blood-borne viruses in South Australia, 2017

By J Pope

In Hepatitis, HIV, Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)

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Communicable Disease Control Branch, SA Health, 2018 In 2017, there were 8,181 new notifications of STIs and BBVs in South Australia. This figure represents a 7% increase in the number of new notifications compared to notifications received in 2016, and a 14% increase compared to the five year average (2012-2016). In 2017, there were 5,910 notifications of genital chlamydia making this the most...

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‘Surveillance of STIs and blood-borne viruses in South Australia, 2015’: report

By J Pope

In Aboriginal Health, Gay Lesbian & Bisexual Health, Hepatitis, HIV, Reproductive health, Safer sex, Sexual Activity, Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs), Young people

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SA Health, January 2017 The SA Health report ‘Surveillance of sexually transmitted infections and blood-borne viruses in South Australia, 2015’ is now available for downloading from the SA Health website. The Communicable Disease Control Branch (CDCB) conducts surveillance for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and blood borne viruses (BBVs) in South Australia under the legislative framework...

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2016 Aboriginal Surveillance Report of HIV, viral hepatitis, STIs

By J Pope

In Aboriginal Health, Hepatitis, HIV, Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)

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Kirby Institute, UNSW, November 2016 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples continue to experience a disproportionate burden of disease. HIV notification rates among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men have doubled over the past five years and rates of chlamydia, gonorrhoea and infectious syphilis are 3, 10 and 6 times greater than the non–Indigenous population in 2015, with even...

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Australia’s annual report card on HIV, hepatitis and STIs

By J Pope

In Aboriginal Health, Hepatitis, HIV, Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)

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Guardian, 14 September 2015 Australia’s HIV contraction stabilises but 1,000 a year still return positive tests: The number of Australians contracting HIV has stabilised but about a thousand people a year are still returning positive tests, and about a quarter of those people have had the virus for at least four years without realising it. The latest report card on the nation’s sexual...

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