Journal article
Chlamydia at an inner metropolitan sexual health service in Sydney, NSW: Australian Collaboration for Chlamydia Enhanced Sentinel Surveillance (ACCESS) Project
N Franklin, CC O'Connor, M Shaw, R Guy, A Grulich, CK Fairley, MY Chen, M Hellard, B Dickson, L Marshall, B Donovan
Sexual Health | CSIRO PUBLISHING | Published : 2010
DOI: 10.1071/SH09125
Abstract
Background: Australia has a widely dispersed network of public sexual health services that test large numbers of people from high prevalence populations for genital Chlamydia trachomatis infection. These populations include young sexually active heterosexuals, men who have sex with men, sex workers and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The Australian Collaboration for Chlamydia Enhanced Sentinel Surveillance (ACCESS) Project was established to monitor chlamydia testing rates and positivity rates at a national level, which in turn will help interpret trends in chlamydia diagnoses reported through passive surveillance. The ACCESS Project is the first time that chlamydia-related dat..
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Funding Acknowledgements
ACCESS is a collaboration between the National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, the Burnet Institute, the National Serology Reference Library, and the National Perinatal Statistics Unit. It is funded by the Department of Health and Ageing, as part of the national Chlamydia Pilot Program. The Australian Collaboration for Chlamydia Enhanced Sentinel Surveillance (ACCESS) is funded through the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing Chlamydia Pilot Program.