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Priorities for preventing a concentrated HIV epidemic among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians
Author(s) -
Ward James S,
Hawke Karen,
Guy Rebecca J
Publication year - 2018
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/mja17.01071
Subject(s) - citation , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , library science , original research , publishing , media studies , history , sociology , medicine , political science , family medicine , law , computer science
5 G escalating among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians. Recently released national data highlight a 33% increase in new HIV diagnosis rates among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, from 4.8 per 100 000 population in 2012 to 6.4 per 100 000 population in 2016. In the same period, newly diagnosed HIV rates among Australian-born non-Indigenous people decreased by 22% (from 3.7 per 100 000 population in 2012 to 2.9 per 100 000 population in 2016).