NEWS BRIEFING: Kirby STI stats 2017 - gonorrhoea up by 63% in just five years

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*NEWS BRIEFING RECORDING AVAILABLE* The latest reports on Australia's sexual health show that rates of gonorrhoea diagnoses have increased by 63 per cent in the past five years, particularly among young, urban heterosexuals. Until recently, the disease was rare in this group. Other worrying findings include a resurgence of infectious syphilis among young Indigenous Australians. However, there is also more positive news; HIV has remained stable over the last five years; hepatitis B has decreased by 27 per cent in the under-25s; and 30,343 people were cured of hepatitis C between March and December 2016 using a new antiviral therapy. Join us for this online briefing, when experts will discuss the latest findings.

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From: Australian Science Media Centre

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Associate Professor Rebecca Guy is Program Head with the Surveillance Evaluation and Research Program in The Kirby Institute for Infection and Immunity in Society, UNSW Sydney
Associate Professor Jason Grebely is a Senior Research Fellow in the Viral Hepatitis Clinical Research Program at The Kirby Institute for Infection and Immunity in Society, UNSW Sydney
Associate Professor James Ward is Head of Infectious Diseases Research Program-Aboriginal Health at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI)
Dr Limin Mao is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW Sydney

Additional panelists (available to answer questions):

Robert Mitchellis Vice President of the National Association of People with HIV Australia
Darryl O'Donnell is CEO of Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations

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