| prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus risk factors in patients attending an accident and emergency department. | the prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) risk factors was evaluated by questionnaire survey in 1565 consecutive patients who attended an adult a&e department in brisbane over a 2-month period. the survey revealed that a total of 144 (9.2%) patients could be considered at risk of hiv infection (high-risk group) because of known seropositivity, admission to hiv high-risk factors or engaging in high-risk activities. the remaining 1421 patients who did not acknowledge any high-risk behav ... | 1992 | 1388496 |
| influence of human immunodeficiency virus antibody testing on sexual behaviour in a "high-risk" population from a "low-risk" city. | a survey was undertaken of homosexual and bisexual men in brisbane to establish whether knowledge of their human immunodeficiency virus (hiv)-antibody status had influenced any sexual behaviour that was likely to spread hiv type 1 (hiv-1). of the 318 respondents, 123 respondents knew their hiv serological status, and 13 of these were hiv seropositive. of the 195 respondents who previously had not been tested, 10 individuals proved to be hiv seropositive. eighty-two per cent of subjects stated th ... | 1988 | 3173194 |
| human immunodeficiency virus notifications for aborigines and torres strait islanders in queensland. | to describe the epidemiology of hiv infection based on notifications of hiv infection in aboriginal and torres strait islander people in queensland and to review their implications for aboriginal and torres strait islander communities. | 1993 | 8450778 |
| 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 |
| the 2004 australian prison entrants' blood-borne virus and risk behaviour survey. | to assess the prevalence of blood-borne viruses and associated risk factors among prison entrants at seven australian prisons across four states. | 2007 | 17333608 |
| characteristics and harms associated with injecting versus smoking methamphetamine among methamphetamine treatment entrants. | to compare the characteristics and harms associated with injecting and smoking methamphetamine among methamphetamine treatment entrants. | 2008 | 18368609 |