Contemporary HIV diagnoses trends in Australia can be predicted by trends in unprotected anal intercourse among gay men
- 30 July 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in AIDS
- Vol. 24 (12), 1955-1958
- https://doi.org/10.1097/qad.0b013e32833bf74a
Abstract
Data from HIV and behavioural surveillance among gay men in Eastern Australian states in 1994–2008 showed a close relationship between trends in reported unprotected anal intercourse with casual partners (UAIC; measured in behavioural surveys) and routinely reported HIV diagnoses. Increasing UAIC was strongly associated with increasing numbers of HIV diagnoses 2 years later (P = 0.001). This suggests an important public health role of UAIC as a predictor of changes in HIV diagnoses in Australia.This publication has 22 references indexed in Scilit:
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