Table 1 Descriptive statistics for HCV Notifications in South Australia 2010–2016
Identified Risk Factors a | Unspecified Notifications (%) | Notifications < 24 months (%) | Total (%) |
Non-Employment | 1642 (75%) | 225 (90%) | 1867 (77%) |
Injecting Drug Use | 1578 (72%) | 284 (90%) | 1862 (74%) |
Injecting drug use in previous 24 months | 1257 (57%) | 275 (87%) | 1532 (61%) |
Birth outside Australia | 683 (23%) | 17 (5%) | 700 (22%) |
Prison history | 432 (33%) | 91 (45%) | 523 (35%) |
Tattoos | 414 (35%) | 69 (35%) | 483 (35%) |
Household Contact | 149 (13%) | 51 (26%) | 200 (15%) |
Indigenous Australian | 120 (12%) | 27 (28%) | 147 (13%) |
Healthcare related exposure | 137 (11%) | 1 (0.5%) | 138 (10%) |
Opposite-sex partner infected with HCV | 94 (8%) | 34 (17%) | 128 (9%) |
Blood Products (Outside Australia) | 57 (5%) | - (0%) | 57 (4%) |
Blood Products (Australia) | 51 (4%) | 1 (0.5%) | 52 (4%) |
Piercing (only from 2005) | 49 (4%) | 19 (10%) | 68 (5%) |
Needle Stick Injury (non HCW) | 25 (2%) | 13 (7%) | 38 (3%) |
Perinatal transmission | 11 (1%) | 1 (0.5%) | 12 (0.9%) |
Needle Stick Injury (HCW) | 7 (0.6%) | 2 (1%) | 9 (0.7%) |
Same-sex partner infected with HCV | 3 (0.26%) | 5 (3%) | 8 (0.6%) |
Notification Sources | Male (%) | Female (%) | Total (%) |
Metropolitan General Practitioner | 813 (35) | 567 (42) | 1380 (38) |
Rural or Remote General Practitioner | 387 (17) | 256 (19) | 643 (18) |
Prison Health Services | 295 (13) | 47 (3) | 342 (9) |
Royal Adelaide Hospital | 176 (8) | 77 (6) | 253 (7) |
Flinders Medical Centre | 91 (4) | 67 (5) | 158 (4) |
Drug Alcohol Services Council | 95 (4) | 35 (3) | 130 (4) |
Lyell McEwin Hospital | 70 (3) | 51 (4) | 121 (3) |
Queen Elizabeth Hospital | 67 (3) | 39 (3) | 106 (3) |
Other Public Hospitals or Health Centres | 79 (3) | 37 (2) | 116 (3) |
Other not specified | 56 (2) | 46 (3) | 102(3) |
Government Aboriginal Health Service | 34 (1) | 26 (2) | 60 (2) |
Sexually Transmitted Diseases Clinic | 43 (2) | 16 (1) | 59 (2) |
Woman’s and Children’s Hospital | 4 (0) | 32 (2) | 36 (1) |
Modbury Hospital | 14 (1) | 11 (1) | 25 (1) |
Mental Health Services | 18 (1) | 12 (1) | 30 (1) |
Australian Red Cross Blood Service | 16 (1) | 14 (1) | 30 (1) |
Aboriginal Controlled Health Services | 18 (1) | 9 (1) | 27 (1) |
Private Hospitals | 14 (1) | 5 (0) | 19 (1) |
Repatriation General Hospital | 7 (0) | 5 (0) | 12 (0) |
Cross Border Notifications | 7 (0) | 0 (0) | 7 (0) |
TOTAL | 2304 (100) | 2352 (99) | 3656 (99) |