A rising proportion of HIV-positive people are being diagnosed years after becoming infected. Experts say testing must be 'normalised' if Australia is to eliminate the virus | marywardy
A rising proportion of HIV-positive people are being diagnosed years into their infections, leading to warnings from experts that testing must be normalised among all sexually active people for Australia to eliminate the virus.
Dr Skye McGregor, one of the authors of the report, said the rising rate of “late” diagnoses could be attributed to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on testing numbers, but also indicated theHIV notifications among men who have sex with men declined from 70 to 60 per cent of all new infections between 2012 and 2021.
Lower testing rates due to the pandemic also likely contributed to the record low number of HIV cases, but McGregor said the figure was also consistent with a broader trend of falling infections. “The big task is to make HIV testing really normal for all sexually active adults, for all adults who are having sex with new partners,” he said, expressingThe National Association of People with HIV in Australia is developing a mail-out HIV national testing service, targeted at groups understood to be under-tested and more commonly diagnosed late – heterosexual men, women, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander groups, and people not eligible for a Medicare card.
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