This study involved 642 prisoners from Barwon, Loddon and Port Phillip Prisons, Fulham Correctional Centre and the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre. Of these, 362 prisoners had hepatitis C virus antibodies. Data on the prevalence of Hepatitis C for women prisoners who are injecting drug users or who are not injecting drug users is included. Further Info

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Category: Health Behaviours Indicator: Illicit Drugs

The Victorian Burden of Disease study includes data for Victorian women that details their potential reduced healthy life expectancy (or death) due to communicable diseases such as chlamydia, gonorrhoea, HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C. Data is reported by age group and includes; number of deaths, years of life lost (YLL), years lived with a disability (YLD), disability-adjusted life years (DALY), incidence and prevalence. The disability weights for conditions are included. Further Info

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Category: Sexual & Reproductive Health Indicator: Communicable Diseases

This report includes the number and rate of notified cases of hepatitis C, chlamydia, gonorrhoea and syphilis for Victorian women.  The report also includes the number of AIDS diagnoses by age group, exposure category, region and reason for test, the number of deaths following AIDS, and the number of women living with AIDS by region. Further Info

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Category: Sexual & Reproductive Health Indicator: Communicable Diseases

This study involved 642 prisoners from Barwon, Loddon and Port Phillip Prisons, Fulham Correctional Centre and the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre. Of these, 362 prisoners had hepatitis C virus antibodies. Data on the prevalence of Hepatitis C for women prisoners who are injecting drug users or who are not injecting drug users is included. Further Info

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Category: Sexual & Reproductive Health Indicator: Communicable Diseases

This webpage provides access to a variety of reports containing communicable disease data for Victorian women including; Monthly HIV/AIDS summary, Chlamydia Report: July - December 2007 and Hepatitis C Report: July - December 2007.  The HIV/AIDS summary includes the number of new HIV diagnoses for the month and compares figures to the previous three months, year to date and the previous year.  The chlamydia and hepatitis C reports are the latest in a new series aimed at presenting information on chlamydia trends and patterns.  Chlamydia data includes the monthly number of tests, number and percentage testing positive and negative, any present STI symptoms, number of sexual partners in the past 12 months, condom use in the past 12 months, casual sexual partners and new sexual partners.  Hepatitis C data includes the monthly number of tests and the number and percentage testing positive and negative.  Further Info

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Authors: Anthony Smith, Paul Agius, Anne Mitchell, Cathering Barrett and Marian Pitts
This survey of Year 10 and Year 12 Australian secondary school students includes their knowledge and attitudes about HIV transmission and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Data includes the percentage that have had an HIV antibody test and the percentage that have been diagnosed with a STI. It also includes the percentage of students reporting that they were likely to very likely to become infected with HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis C or STIs. Further Info

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Category: Sexual & Reproductive Health Indicator: Communicable Diseases

This report contains HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infection (STI) data for Australian women. Data includes the number and rate of HIV and AIDS diagnoses, the rate of chlamydia, gonorrhoea, syphilis and hepatitis C infections, number of deaths following AIDS, HIV prevalence in prison entrants, blood donations with HIV antibodies, and the prevalence of HIV and hepatitis C with injecting drug users. Data for Victorian women includes the number and rate of perinatal exposure to HIV and characteristics of newly diagnosed HIV infection. The majority of the data is presented in a time series (1998-2008) and data is available for Australian Indigenous persons. Further Info

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Category: Sexual & Reproductive Health Indicator: Communicable Diseases

This study involved 642 prisoners from Barwon, Loddon and Port Phillip Prisons, Fulham Correctional Centre and the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre. Of these, 362 prisoners had hepatitis C virus antibodies. Data on the prevalence of Hepatitis C for women prisoners who are injecting drug users or who are not injecting drug users is included. Further Info

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Category: Violence & Safety Indicator: Women Offenders