Rapid point-of-care tests for HIV and sexually transmissible infection control in remote Australia: can they improve Aboriginal people’s and Torres Strait Islanders’ health?

Rapid point-of-care tests for HIV and sexually transmissible infection control in remote Australia: can they improve Aboriginal people’s and Torres Strait Islanders’ health? Journal Article

Sexual Health

• Author(s): Ward, James, Guy, Rebecca, Huang, Rae-Lin, Knox, Janet, Couzos, Sophie, Scrimgeour, David, Moore, Liz, Leahy, Tim, Hunt, Jenny, Donovan, Basil, Kaldor, John M.
• Published: 2012
• Volume: 9

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Abstract: Editorial: Point-of-care (POC) diagnostic tests conducted at the time of the patient visit have the potential to improve treatment and management of curable sexually transmissible infections (STI) such as chlamydia, gonorrhoea and trichomoniasis. For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander remote communities, STI remain an important and long-standing public health issue. They are associated with serious sequelae including pelvic inflammatory disease, infertility and systemic disease,1and are particularly prevalent in remote communities. In 2009,chlamydia and gonorrhoea notification rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples were very high at 2620 and 2252 per 100 000 population, respectively, equating to chlamydia and gonorrhoea prevalence above 10% in many remote communities. HIV diagnosis rates in the same communities remain low at 1 per 100 000 population in 2009.

• Urls: https://doi.org/10.1071/SH11051, https://www.publish.csiro.au/sh/pdf/SH11051