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Individual and population level impacts of illicit drug use, sexual risk behaviours on sexually transmitted infections among young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people: results from the GOANNA survey

Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) have been increasing among Australian Indigenous young people for over two decades. Little is known about the association between alcohol and other drug use and sexual ri...

Handan Wand, James Ward, Joanne Bryant, Dea Delaney-Thiele… in BMC Public Health (2016)

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Measuring effectiveness of the cervical cancer vaccine in an Australian setting (the VACCINE study)

The quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccine has been provided in Australia through the National Human Papillomavirus Vaccination Program since April 2007. National registry data demonstrates good coverage of...

Elisa J Young, Sepehr N Tabrizi, Julia ML Brotherton, John D Wark, Jan Pyman… in BMC Cancer (2013)

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Drivers of treatment change in PLHIV- psycho-social factors are more important than considerations of adherence

Marian Pitts, Jeffrey Grierson, Rachel Koelmeyer in Retrovirology (2012)

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Consistency between clinician and patient perspectives on ARV treatment commencement and switching examined

Jeffrey Grierson, Marian Pitts, Rachel Koelmeyer in Retrovirology (2012)

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Managing chronic hepatitis B: A qualitative study exploring the perspectives of people living with chronic hepatitis B in Australia

The implementation of a comprehensive public health response to hepatitis B in Australia is urgently required to reduce the increasing burden of hepatitis B infection on the health system and the community. A ...

Jack Wallace, Stephen McNally, Jacqui Richmond, Behzad Hajarizadeh… in BMC Research Notes (2011)

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Determinants of male reproductive health disorders: the Men in Australia Telephone Survey (MATeS)

The relationship between reproductive health disorders and lifestyle factors in middle-aged and older men is not clear. The aim of this study is to describe lifestyle and biomedical associations as possible ca...

Carol A Holden, Robert I McLachlan, Marian Pitts, Robert Cumming… in BMC Public Health (2010)

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Assessing knowledge of human papillomavirus and collecting data on sexual behavior: computer assisted telephone versus face to face interviews

Education campaigns seeking to raise awareness of human papillomavirus (HPV) and promoting HPV vaccination depend on accurate surveys of public awareness and knowledge of HPV and related sexual behavior. Howev...

Anthony Smith, Anthony Lyons, Marian Pitts, Samantha Croy… in BMC Public Health (2009)

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Conversant or clueless? Chlamydia-related knowledge and practice of general practitioners in Western Australia

A survey of Western Australia's general practitioners' (GPs') knowledge and practices relating to genital chlamydia infection was conducted in mid-2005, prior to a multi-media campaign which encouraged 15–24 y...

Meredith J Temple-Smith, Donna Mak, Jan Watson, Lisa Bastian… in BMC Family Practice (2008)