Australia on HIV
July 23, 2014
AUSTRALIA’S Chief Medical
Officer Professor Chris Baggoley
told the 20th International AIDS
Conference that while the country
had made good progress in
addressing HIV over the last 30
years, the rate of new diagnoses
was increasing and had been for
about 14 years.
“There were 1,236 cases of
HIV infection newly diagnosed in
Australia in 2013, similar to the
number in 2012, and the highest
rates we have seen since the early
1990s – almost 20 years ago.”
While 70% of new diagnoses
were attributed to sexual contact
between men, there was increasing
numbers of HIV transmission
through heterosexual contact,
he said, with almost half the
new diagnoses attributed to
heterosexual transmission in
migrant communities from high
HIV-prevalence countries and their
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