Population movement can sustain STI prevalence in remote Australian indigenous communities

Population movement can sustain STI prevalence in remote Australian indigenous communities

BMC Infectious Diseases

• Author(s): Hui, Ben B., Gray, Richard T., Wilson, David P., Ward, James S., Smith, Anthony M. A., Philip, David J., Law, Matthew G., Hocking, Jane S., Regan, David G.
• Published: 2013
• Volume: 13
• ISBN: 1471-2334

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Abstract: For almost two decades, chlamydia and gonorrhoea diagnosis rates in remote Indigenous communities have been up to 30 times higher than for non-Indigenous Australians. The high levels of population movement known to occur between remote communities may contribute to these high rates.

• Urls: https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-13-188
• Keywords: Mobility, Indigenous population, Remote communities, Chlamydia, Gonorrhoea