| 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 |
| 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 |