Communicable Diseases

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This publication reports on a range of measures under the National Healthcare Agreement. This includes incidence rates and new cases of sexually transmitted infections and blood borne viruses among women.  Further Info

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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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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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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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This report includes the number of annual HIV tests for Victorian women by age group.  Data also includes the number of tests by reason for test.  Further Info

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Other Resources

Knowledge of sexually transmissible infections and blood-borne viruses
Grulich AE, Visser RO, Smith AMA, Rissel CE, Richters J. (2003) Sex in Australia: Knowledge about sexually transmissible infections and blood-borne viruses in a representative sample of adults. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health. April 27(2): 230-233

Sexually transmissible infection and blood-borne virus history
Grulich AE, Visser RO, Smith AMA, Rissel CE, Richters J. (2003) Sex in Australia: Sexually transmissible infection and blood-borne virus history in a representative sample of adults. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health. April 27(2): 234-241