STDs in South Australia 2002

	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
HIV cases	46	38	35	22	23	45	32	45	55	51	61
AIDS cases*	39	27	24	12	5	13	16	4	10	7	14
AIDS deaths*	30	11	19	8	6	11	14	7	10	3	7
Non AIDS deaths*	2	1	2	3	6	3	4	6	3	3	4
Hepatitis B (acute)	20	17	16	15	25	19	10	10	8	8	4
Hepatitis C (incident)	36	52	70	86	92	91	44	75	64	49	53

† Newly diagnosed cases only.
* Includes individuals whose HIV infection may have been diagnosed interstate

Clinic 275 - Summary statistics

Diagnoses (2006)	Male	Female	Total
No illness	2521	1519	4040
HIV	11	1	12
Gonorrhoea	71	7	78
Syphilis	30	5	35
Herpes	127	144	271
Chlamydia	364	215	579
NSU	79	na	79
Warts	1041	489	1530
Trichomoniasis	3	8	11
Candida vaginitis	na	239	239
Crabs	29	1	30
Scabies	6	1	7
Molluscum contagiosum	256	100	356
Bacterial vaginitis	na	269	269
Hepatitis B – acute	1	1	2
carrier	19	17	36
Hepatitis C - incident	1	1	2
- new	7	3	10
- known	35	21	56
Urethral irritation	237	na	237
Balanitis	210	na	210
Post coital contraception	na	184	184
nPep	19	4	23
Non STD illness	458	231	689
Other/uncertain	73	45	118
Clinic attendances	10452	6354	16806
Episodes of care	5260	3202	8462
Individual clients	4030	2521	6551
New registrations	2039	1449	3488

Figure 1.1 Distribution of illnesses detected in male and female clients at Clinic 275, 2006.

South Australia - Overview

In 2006, 3123 cases of chlamydia, 503 cases of gonorrhoea and 42 cases of infectious syphilis were detected in South Australia (Summary statistics).

In the same period, 61 individuals were notified with HIV infection and 14 individuals were notified with AIDS. Of the 11 deaths notified, 7 were attributed to an AIDS defining illness (Summary statistics).

During 2006, 645 medical notifications of hepatitis C infection included 53 incident cases (acquired in the previous 12 months). Hepatitis B medical notifications in 2006 included four acute cases (Summary statistics).

Clinic 275

The most common infection diagnosed at Clinic 275 continues to be genital warts (20% male, 15% female (Figure 1.1). Other common conditions in males were chlamydia (7%), balanitis (4%), urethral irritation (5%), NSU (2%), and genital herpes (3%). In females, conditions included bacterial vaginosis (8%), candida vaginitis (8%), chlamydia (7%) and genital herpes (5%). A high proportion of clients attending Clinic 275 had no illness (48% male, 47% female). Overall there were 16806 clinic attendances in 2006 (Summary statistics).

Clinic 275 followed up 424 cases of genital chlamydial infection. Contact tracing was effective in detecting 73 new cases of chlamydia among the contacts of males, and 49 cases in contacts of females. The yield of contacts per index case was 1.6 for male cases and 1.7 for female cases (Table 1.2). Of 122 new infections detected, 101 (83%) individuals were examined within 14 days of being contacted (Table 1.3).

Clinic 275 followed up 55 cases of gonorrhoea. Twelve new cases were detected in contacts of males examined and one new cases were detected among contacts of female cases (Table 1.2). A further nine contacts had been diagnosed positive prior to being located.

Table 1.1 Summary of diagnoses made on clients attending Clinic 275 during 2006.
Specific diagnoses by number of clients, episodes and sex.

Male episodes
Diagnosis	1	2	3	4	>5	*Total diagnoses
No illness	2016	374	102	21	8	2521
HIV	11	-	-	-	-	11
Gonorrhoea	57	9	1	3	1	71
Syphilis	24	4	1	4	-	30
Herpes	91	25	9	2	-	127
Chlamydia	310	37	11	4	2	364
NSU	55	12	9	2	1	79
Warts	696	217	83	32	13	1041
Trichomoniasis	2	1	-	-	-	3
Crabs	20	7	1	-	1	29
Scabies	6	-	-	-	-	6
Molluscum contagiosum	183	54	16	2	1	356
Urethral irritation	192	20	11	3	1	237
Balanitis	171	29	4	2	-	206
Non STD illness	353	74	25	3	3	458
Uncertain	46	20	3	-	-	69
Other	3	1	-	-	-	4
*Total	4236	884	276	78	31	5512
*Total male episodes 5260
Female episodes
Diagnosis	1	2	3	4	>5	Total diagnoses*
No illness	1237	212	50	13	7	1519
HIV	1	-	-	-	-	1
Gonorrhoea	6	-	-	1

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