This report describes the epidemiology of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and blood-borne viruses (BBVs) in Western Australia (WA) for 2006 and data trends over the period 1997 to 2006.

Data presented in this report relate to notifications received by the Department of Health are likely to underestimate the true incidence of disease.

Diseases included in this report are the results of routine surveillance for genital chlamydia infection, gonorrhoea, syphilis, donovanosis, chancroid, HIV/AIDS, hepatitis B and hepatitis C. Notification data have been analysed by age, sex, region and Aboriginality.

As the document is over 140 pages long, it can be viewed and downloaded either whole or in sections. Copies of the report are also available for order by calling Health Info 1300 135 030.