HIV infection, AIDS, hepatitis C and sexually transmissible infections in Australia: national surveillance results to December 1998

Abstract

The third annual surveillance report HIV–AIDS, Hepatitis C and Sexually Transmissible Infections in Australia Annual Surveillance Report 1999 was released in October 1999. The report, framed in the context of the third National HIV–AIDS Strategy 1996–97 to 1998–99, provides a comprehensive summary of current knowledge on the pattern of HIV infection, AIDS, hepatitis C, and sexually transmissible infections in Australia.