Testing people at risk

Groups most at risk of sexually transmitted infections, HIV/AIDS and viral hepatitis are:

• gay and other homosexually active men (including people with HIV/AIDS)
• injecting drug users
• young people
• sex workers
• prisoners 
• Indigenous Queenslanders
• people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

Read Queensland Health guidelines for screening each of these priority groups (PDF, 91kb).

Related links (WWW)

• Ethnic Communities Council of Queensland
• Queensland Aboriginal and Islander Health Council
• Queensland Injectors Health Network (QuIHN)
  - a community based organisation providing support for current or past illicit drug users
• STIGMA (STIs in Gay Men Action Group)
  – a site designed to assist GPs and other health care workers to meet the sexual health needs of gay men
• Youth Affairs Network Queensland.

Last Updated: 26 July 2011
Last Reviewed: 21 September 2010