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Table 9A Indigenous children aged 0-6 years in non-remote areas: immunisation status, 2004-05
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Table 9AIndigenous children aged 0-6 years in non-remote areas:
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Immunisation status for selected vaccinations (a) (b) |
Indigenous (%) |
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Diphtheria, tetanus |
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Fully immunised |
79 |
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Partially immunised |
16 |
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Not immunised |
-- |
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Total (c) |
100 |
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Whooping cough |
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Fully immunised |
74 |
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Partially immunised |
23 |
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Not immunised |
*1 |
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Total (c) |
100 |
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Hepatitis B (d) |
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Fully immunised |
83 |
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Partially immunised |
12 |
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Not immunised |
**1 |
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Total (c) |
100 |
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Polio |
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Fully immunised |
79 |
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Partially immunised |
17 |
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Not immunised |
*2 |
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Total (c) |
100 |
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Hib |
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Fully immunised |
73 |
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Partially immunised |
14 |
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Not immunised |
7 |
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Total (c) |
100 |
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Measles, mumps, rubella |
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Fully immunised |
85 |
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Partially immunised |
*9 |
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Not immunised |
*4 |
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Total (c) |
100 |
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey, 2004-05 (Cat. No. 4715.0).
(a) Children who had immunisation records available.
(b) Status derived based on schedule started.
(c) Includes “immunisation status” not known.
(d) Introduced in the recommended immunisation schedule in May 2000 and therefore data only applies to children born from that date.
* unreliable for practical purposes due to high relative standard error (between 25%-50%).
** unreliable for general purposes due to very high relative standard error (greater than 50%).
-- nil or rounded to zero (including null cells).
48. Table 9B shows the immunisation status in 2004-05 of Indigenous and non-Indigenous adults aged 50 years and over in relation to influenza and pneumonia.
Table 9B
Persons aged 50 years and over: immunisation status by indigenous status, 2004-05
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Adults (d) | ||||
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Immunisation status |
Indigenous |
Non-Indigenous | ||
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Remote areas (%) |
Non-remote areas (%) |
Total (%) |
(%) | |
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Influenza |
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Had vaccination in last 12 months |
80 |
52 |
60 |
46 |
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Had vaccination but not in last 12 months |
8 |
18 |
15 |
14 |
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Never had vaccination |
11 |
30 |
25 |
39 |
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Total persons (a) |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
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Pneumonia |
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Had vaccination in last five years |
56 |
26 |
34 |
20 |
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Had vaccination but not in last five years |
-- |
*1 |
*1 |
1 |
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Never had vaccination |
37 |
67 |
58 |
77 |
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Total persons (b) |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey, 2004-05 (cat. No. 4715.0)
Notes: (a) Includes “influenza vaccination status” not known;
(b) Includes “pneumonia vaccination status” not known.
* unreliable for practical purposes due to high relative standard error (between 25-50%).
-- nil or rounded to zero (including null cells).
Rates of infection with HIV/AIDS
49. In collaboration with the State and Territory health authorities and the Australian Government, surveillance for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is conducted by the National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research. This centre is part of the Faculty of Medicine, University of NSW and is funded in part by the Department of Health and Ageing.
50. At 31 December 2005, the cumulative number of HIV infections that had been diagnosed in Australia was estimated to be 22,360. The annual number of new HIV diagnoses was lowest in 1999 with 716 reported new cases, after which there has been a steady but small increase to 930 new cases in 2005. The cumulative number of AIDS diagnoses, adjusted for reporting delay, was 9,759. There was a cumulative total of 6,668 deaths. In 2005 it was estimated that 15,310 people in Australia were living with HIV/AIDS.
51. The reduced numbers of new AIDS diagnoses in recent years has been due to the decline in HIV incidence that took place in the mid 1980s, and the use, since around 1996, of effective combination antiretroviral therapy for the treatment of HIV infection. Transmission of HIV in Australia continues to be mainly through sexual contact between men (64 per cent of new infections between 2001-2005). Exposure to HIV was attributed to heterosexual contact in 18.5 per cent of new diagnoses between 2001-2005 and between 1996-2005 approximately 8 per cent of new infections to injecting drug use, more than half of these were men who also reported a history of homosexual contact. Among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations an almost equal proportion of diagnoses were attributed to male homosexual contact and heterosexual contact.
52. The following table shows rates of HIV infection between 2000 and 2005 among Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians and males and females and different age groups between 2004-2005.
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