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Measuring the HIV epidemic: the Western Australian experience
Author(s) -
Kelly Heath A,
Rouse Ian L,
Sesnan Kevin T
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1990.tb125496.x
Subject(s) - human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , medicine , demography , virology , geography , sociology
Previous discussion about sources of error in measuring the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic has tended to emphasise errors which underestimated the number of HIV infected persons. Data are provided from Western Australia illustrating potential errors which may result in overestimating the size of the epidemic. Duplication of persons notified in more than one State and multiple notifications by doctors and laboratories of single cases may give rise to substantial errors in overestimation.