Research, surveillance and resources for Sexual Health
Queensland Health’s weekly notifiable conditions report gathers a range of data to inform prevention, diagnosis and treatment of notifiable sexually transmissible infections, HIV/AIDS and viral hepatitis.
HIV reporting
Queensland Health produces an annual report describing notifications of HIV in Queensland
- HIV in Queensland 2015 (PDF, 300kB)
- HIV in Queensland 2014 (PDF, 585kB)
- HIV in Queensland 2013 (PDF, 643kb)
- HIV in Queensland 2012 (PDF, 1MB)
- 2011 HIV/AIDS Report: Epidemiology and Surveillance (PDF, 785kb)
Syphilis reporting
Queensland Health produces an annual report describing notification of syphilis in Queensland, focusing particularly on the demographic distribution and risk factors among infectious syphilis cases.
Download the report on Syphilis in Queensland 2010 - 2015 (PDF, 838kb)
For more information or hard copies, please contact the BBV & STI Program.
Strategies and action plans
The Queensland Sexual Health Strategy 2016–2021 will help improve the sexual and reproductive health of all Queenslanders by addressing a broad range of sexual and reproductive health issues including health promotion, prevention, clinical service provision and community education.
The strategy provides an overarching framework and the following action plans have been developed to support key priority areas of the strategy:
- HIV Action Plan 2016–2021 (PDF, 2.0MB)
- Hepatitis B Action Plan 2016–2021 (PDF, 2.1MB)
- Hepatitis C Action Plan 2016–2021 (PDF, 2.0MB)
- North Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sexually Transmissible Infections Action Plan 2016–2021 (PDF, 4.31MB).
The action plans align with the national strategies for blood borne viruses and sexually transmissible infections.
Research
Queensland Health conducts a range of collaborative research with the following partners:
- Sexual Health Society of Queensland
- Queensland Alcohol and Other Drug Research and Education Centre, UQ
- Chlamydia Research Centre, QUT
- HIV and HCV Education Projects, School of Medicine, UQ
- Queensland Positive People
- Department of Community Service (Prison Entrants Survey)
- National Centre HIV Social Research (University of NSW) (Gay Men’s Periodic Survey)
- The Kirby Institute
- Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society reports (LaTrobe University)
- Burnet Institute Centre for Population Health
- HIV/STI Professorial Chair, UQ
Sexual health organisations and resources
Queensland
- HIV Foundation Queensland
- Sexual health for the Queensland public
- Queensland World AIDS Day
- Queensland Injectors Health Network
- Queensland AIDS Council
- Ethnic Communities Council of Queensland
- True
- Haemophilia Foundation Queensland
- Hepatitis Queensland
- Queensland Positive People
- Respect Inc
- Open Doors Youth Service
- Women's Health Queensland Wide
- Youth Link (Cairns)
- Youth Empowered Towards Independence (YETI)
- Animated movies
National
- Let Them Know
- Kirby Institute
- The Drama Down Under
- National Centre in HIV Social Research
- National Sexual Health Campaign
- Better to Know
- Multicultural HIV and Hepatitis Service (NSW)
- Play Safe (NSW)
