WESTERN AUSTRALIA HIV RATES INCREASE The number of West - TopicsExpress



          

WESTERN AUSTRALIA HIV RATES INCREASE The number of West Australians diagnosed with HIV each year has more than doubled since 2004. A conference in Perth has heard the infection rate increased partly because the states population is highly mobile. This included travel to South-East Asia for business and pleasure, the prevalence of fly-in, fly-out workers (FIFO), the high number of people coming to the state to live and work, and the scattered nature of rural and remote towns. HIV or the Human Immunodeficiency Virus is a lentivirus that causes the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome(AIDS) , a condition in humans in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thrive.
Posted on: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 19:48:04 +0000

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