Key findings
- A total of 1,081 notifications of newly diagnosed HIV infection were reported in 2014 including 33 which were identified as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander.
- A total of 10,621 cases of newly diagnosed hepatitis C infection were reported in Australia in 2014; 877 (8%), occurred among the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population, 3,379 (32%) were among the non‑Indigenous population and a further 6,365 (60%) cases for which Indigenous status was not reported.
- There were a total of 6,635 notifications of newly diagnosed hepatitis B infection in Australia in 2014; of these, 164 (2%) were among the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population, 2,247 (34%) were among the non‑Indigenous population and a further 4,224 (64%) notifications for which Indigenous status was not reported.
- Chlamydia continued to be the most frequently reported notifiable condition in Australia in 2014. There were a total of 86,136 notifications in 2014, 6,641 (8%) were among the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population, 25,365 (29%) were among the non‑Indigenous population and Indigenous status was not reported for 54,130 (63%) notifications.
- In 2014, the infectious syphilis notification rate in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population was 4 times higher than the non‑Indigenous population (32 vs. 8 per 100,000 population) increasing to 300 times higher in remote areas.