Increasing access by priority populations to Australian sexual health clinics

Hammad Ali; Basil Donovan; Christopher K Fairley; Marcus Y Chen; Catherine C O'Connor; Andrew E Grulich; Anna McNulty; Nathan Ryder; Margaret E Hellard; Rebecca J Guy; ACCESS Collaboration

doi:10.1097/OLQ.0000000000000015

Increasing access by priority populations to Australian sexual health clinics

Sex Transm Dis. 2013 Oct;40(10):819-21. doi: 10.1097/OLQ.0000000000000015.

Authors

Hammad Ali¹, Basil Donovan, Christopher K Fairley, Marcus Y Chen, Catherine C O'Connor, Andrew E Grulich, Anna McNulty, Nathan Ryder, Margaret E Hellard, Rebecca J Guy; ACCESS Collaboration

Collaborators

ACCESS Collaboration:
Basil Donovan, Rebecca Guy, John Kaldor, James Ward, Hammad Ali, Margaret Hellard, Jane Goller, Fabian Kong, Caroline van Gemert, Elizabeth Sullivan, Wayne Dimech, Christopher Fairley, Sarah Martin, Deborah Miller, Phillip Read, Heng Lu, Brian Mulhall, Jenny Heslop, Alison Nikitas, Alison Kincaid, Debbie Allen, Brian Hughes, Martin O'Connor, Ingrid Van Beek, Craig Rogers, Saeed Azarakhsh, David J Smith, Cecily Gray, Tim lynch, Fiona D'Aquino, Catherine C O'Connor, Stephen Phan, Stephen Davies, Amanda Rickett, Catriona Ooi, Sangeetha Eswarappa, Eva Jackson, Jane Shakeshaft, Katherine Brown, Victoria McGrath, Illawarra Shoalhaven, Pam Konecny, Josephine Lusk, Yoges Paramsothy, Mairead Hetherington, Nathan Ryder, Peter Knibbs, Darren Russell, Colette Cashman, Maree O'Sullivan, Simon White, David Jardine, Dee Archbold, Arun Menon, Angela Cooper, Louise Owen, Barbara Lennox, Christopher Fairley, Marcus Chen, Afrizal Afrizal, Lewis Marshall

Affiliation

¹ From the *The Kirby Institute, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; †Sydney Sexual Health Centre, Sydney Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; ‡Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; §School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; ¶RPA Sexual Health Service, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; ∥Central Clinical School, Sydney University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; **Clinic 34, Darwin, NT, Australia; and ††Centre for Population Health, Burnett Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

PMID: 24275736
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0000000000000015

Abstract

Data from a network of 35 Australian sexual health clinics, in geographically diverse locations, showed that the number and proportion of patients from priority populations (ie, young people, men who have sex with men, indigenous people, and female sex workers) increased significantly between 2004 and 2011.

Publication types

Multicenter Study
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Adult
Age Factors
Ambulatory Care Facilities* / organization & administration
Australia / epidemiology
Female
Health Services Accessibility / statistics & numerical data*
Homosexuality, Male / statistics & numerical data
Humans
Male
Population Surveillance
Prevalence
Reproductive Health*
Risk Factors
Sex Workers / statistics & numerical data*
Sexual Partners
Sexually Transmitted Diseases / epidemiology
Sexually Transmitted Diseases / prevention & control*
Vulnerable Populations / statistics & numerical data*