The Informer

5 Jul 2018

HIV on the rise for Indigenous Australians, is it time to change the narrative?

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New data has urged that it is time for immediate action to combat HIV amongst indigenous Australians with the news that newly diagnosed HIV rates among Australian-born non-Indigenous people decreased by 22 per cent, from 3.7 per 100,000 population to 2.9 per 100,000 people between 2012 & 2016, but there is a 33 per cent increase in new cases of HIV diagnosed in Indigenous people, from 4.8 per 100,000 people in 2012 to 6.4 in 2016.

An article in the Medical Journal of Australia released this week shows that the rate of HIV diagnosis among Indigenous Australians is more than double the rate for non-Indigenous people for the first time since full data was collected in 1992.

If we want to get HIV rates down, we need a approach to treatment and prevention that targets ever Australian.

Dean Arcuri speaks to one of the authors of the article James Ward, who is the head of infectious disease research at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute.

This segment of The Informer aired on JOY 94.9 on 4th July 2018 & was hosted by Tom Morgan.

 

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