| australia's notifiable diseases status, 2001: annual report of the national notifiable diseases surveillance system. | in 2001 there were 104,187 notifications of communicable diseases in australia reported to the national notifiable diseases surveillance system (nndss). the number of notifications in 2001 was an increase of 16 per cent of those reported in 2000 (89,740) and the largest annual total since the nndss commenced in 1991. in 2001, nine new diseases were added to the list of diseases reported to nndss and four diseases were removed. the new diseases were cryptosporidiosis, laboratory-confirmed influen ... | 2003 | 12725505 |
| contact tracing and sexually transmitted disease among aboriginal men on the anangu pitjantjatjara lands. | sexually transmitted diseases (stds) are a major health problem for pitjantjatjara aboriginal people, causing considerable morbidity and being implicated in the potential rapid transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) infection. this paper presents data in relation to std contact tracing on the anangu pitjantjatjara lands. in-depth interviews were conducted with aboriginal men and non-aboriginal clinic staff to ascertain their attitudes to and perceptions of contact tracing. the interv ... | 1995 | 8616200 |
| hiv infection among male prisoners in south australia, 1989 to 1994. | the prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) in male prisoners in south australia from july 1989 to june 1994 was ascertained from a repeated cross-sectional study. we also compared the criminological and demographic characteristics and histories of drug use of 39 hiv-infected prisoners and a randomly selected sample of 86 uninfected prisoners admitted at the same time. the numbers of hiv-infected prisoners in prison in any month ranged from 4 to 12. prevalence among the total prison pop ... | 1997 | 9470260 |
| australian prisons are still health risks. | | 1999 | 10451661 |
| sharps injury and body fluid exposure among health care workers in an australian tertiary hospital. | to examine sharps injury and body fluid exposure among health care workers, a descriptive epidemiological study was conducted in a 1000-bed tertiary hospital between 2000 and 2003 using surveillance data of all reported sharps injuries and body fluid exposures. a total of 640 sharps injuries and body fluid exposures were reported from hospital and nonhospital staff, although no seroconversions to hiv, hepatitis b virus, or hepatitis c virus were observed during the study period. nurses reported ... | 2008 | 19124307 |
| bone allograft banking in south australia. | the south australian bone bank had expanded to meet an increased demand for allograft bone. during a 5 year period from 1988 to 1992, 2361 allografts were harvested from 2146 living donors and 30 cadaveric donors. the allografts were screened by contemporary banking techniques which include a social history, donor serum tests for hiv-1, hiv-2, hepatitis b and c, syphilis serology, graft microbiology and histology. grafts were irradiated with 25 kgy. the majority of grafts were used for arthropla ... | 1995 | 8611110 |
| clinical and molecular aspects of molluscum contagiosum infection in hiv-1 positive patients. | molluscum contagiosum virus (mcv) lesions from 31 human immunodeficiency type 1 (hiv-1) positive patients and 54 hiv-1 negative adult control patients were examined for the presence and type of mcv dna by high stringency southern hybridization using 32p-labelled or digoxigenin-labelled mcv dna probes. of the 83 patients whose lesions contained detectable mcv dna, 77 were infected with a single type of mcv (16 with mcv 1; 29 with mcv 1v; 30 with mcv 2; and 2 with mcv 2v). five patients had appare ... | 1992 | 1571379 |
| haemophilia a management in victorian, new south wales and south australian haemophilia centres. | to examine the management of haemophilia a in australia and to compare it with international trends. | 1995 | 7791641 |
| preventing human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) infection among prisoners: prisoners' and prison officers' knowledge of hiv and their attitudes to options for prevention. | | 1990 | 2331865 |
| attitudes, knowledge and behaviour of general practitioners in relation to hiv infection and aids. commonwealth aids research grant committee working party. | a stratified random sample of 655 australian general practitioners (gps) was surveyed to determine their attitudes, knowledge and behaviour in relation to the human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) pandemic. of the 486 respondents, 22% had one or more patients with hiv infection in their practice and 80% had been asked for information on hiv infection in the past month by at least one patient. the majority of respondents viewed screening and education of patients as part of their role, but 24% did n ... | 1990 | 2271027 |