Key findings
- The results show that among Australian born women, aged 21 years or younger and thus eligible for free HPV vaccine, 11.7% were diagnosed with genital warts in 2007; declining to 0.8% in 2015.
- Among Australian born women, aged 21 – 30 years, most of whom had been eligible for free HPV vaccine by the later years, 12.1% were diagnosed with genital warts in 2007; declining to 2.4% in 2015.
- The proportion of women aged >30 years diagnosed with genital warts declined slightly from 5.9% in 2007 to 3.8% in 2015.
- Among Australian born heterosexual men aged 21 years or younger, 12.6% were diagnosed with genital warts in 2007, declining to 0.9% in 2015; and among Australian born heterosexual men aged 21 – 30 years, 20.0% were diagnosed in 2007, declining to 5.6% in 2015. There was also a decrease in genital warts diagnoses among heterosexual men older than 30 years, from 12.2% in 2007 to 7.1% in 2015.
- Among heterosexual Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men, aged 21 years or younger, 5.5% were diagnosed with genital warts in 2007, with no cases diagnosed in 2014 or 2015. Among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heterosexual men aged 21 – 30 years, 11.2% were diagnosed with genital warts in 2007, declining to 4.5% in 2015.
