Key findings
- By 31 December 2010, 30,486 cases of HIV infection had been diagnosed in Australia.
- The per capita rate of diagnosis of hepatitis B infection in Australia in 2006 – 2010 was stable at around 31 per 100,000 population. The rate of diagnosis of newly acquired hepatitis B infection declined from 1.4 to 1.0 per 100,000 population between 2006 and 2010.
- The per capita rate of diagnosis of hepatitis C infection declined from 58.6 per 100,000 in 2006 to 52 per 100,000 population in 2009.
- Chlamydia was the most frequently reported notifiable condition in Australia in 2010 with 74,305 diagnoses. The population rate of diagnosis of chlamydia in 2010 was 319 per 100,000 population, a 17% increase over the rate in 2009, continuing the increase seen over the past ten years.
- The number of diagnoses of gonorrhoea increased by 25%, from 7,993 cases in 2009 to 10,015 in 2010. The rate of diagnosis of infectious syphilis increased by 60%, from 4.2 in 2006 to 6.7 in 2007 and declined to 4.9 in 2010. The increases in infectious syphilis have occurred largely among men who have sex with men.