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These statistics are for consideration by anyone.

Having used IV drugs and less than 25 years of age ..... 16%3 (of the homosexual community) ..... 1.5% (of the general community) ..... 11 times the prevalence
Engaged in prostitution ..... 24% 3 (of the homosexual community) ..... 0.66% 4 ..... (of the general community) ..... 36 times the prevalence
For transvestites, the figure is 45% 3 engaged in prostitution
Having a lifetime STDs prevalence ..... 70% 3 (of the homosexual community) ..... 4% (of the general community) ..... 18 times the prevalence
Percentage alcoholism ..... 27% 3 (of the homosexual community) ..... 11% 5 (of the general community) ..... 2.5 times the prevalence
Median number of partners ..... 38 per year
Having a brief or no knowledge of partners ..... 90% 4
Involved in whipping, sadism or masochism ..... 21% 3 (of the homosexual community) Sadism and 'anti-violence' (1997 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, page 99) are somewhat incongruous.
Of those with HIV, having anogenital warts ..... 92%
Of those not having HIV and having anogenital warts ..... 76% 3
Acquired multiple wart virus subtypes, within 17 months ..... 75% 3 (of the homosexual community)
Involved in 'rimming' (mouth to anus contact) .....61% 3 (of the homosexual community)
Having anal pre-cancer ..... 18.0% (of the homosexual community) .... 0.03% 8 (of the general community) ..... 650 times the prevalence
Having HIV ( < 25 years 10%, > 25 years 24% ) ..... 21.8% 3 (of the homosexual community)
Average age of death from AIDS ..... 35.7 years
Expected average life span ..... 45 years (of the homosexual community) ..... 70 years 10 (of the general community)

References:
3 Sydney Men And Sexual Health (SMASH) Study, 1995, Volume B2, Australian Society of HIV Medicine.
4 International Social Science Program (ISSP), Component of the National Social Science Survey (NSSS), of the Social Sciences Data Archives (SSDA), at the Australian National University (ANU). Family Life Survey 1989-90.
5 Statistics on Drug Abuse in Australia in 1994. Commonwealth Department of Human Services and Health. AGPS, ISSN 0817 - 3575.
6 Kippax S. (1995) Predictors of unprotected male-to-male anal intercourse with casual partners in a national sample. Australian Journal of Public Health 19:2:132.
7 Kiviat 1993 as reported in Mindel 1995, Human Papilloma Virus Edward Arnold. p70.
8 Melbye M. (1994) High incidence of anal cancer among AIDS patients. Lancet. 343 (I) :636.
9 Gold J., Yeuming L., Kaldor J. (?1994) Premature Mortality in Australia 1983 -1992; The first decade of the AIDS Epidemic.
10 Australian Social Trends 1995 ABS Canberra.

News report from the Sydney Star Observer 25 Feb 1999
Infection rates of the sexually transmitted disease (STD) gonorrhoea among gay men are increasing at epidemic proportions. Some doctors have likened the increase to an epidemic between 1983 and 1985 when HIV infection rates also rose. By the end of last year, gonorrhoea infections had increased by almost 50 per cent across NSW, Professor John Tapsall from the Prince of Wales Hospital Gonococcal Reference Laboratory said yesterday. Inner Sydney medical centres are also reporting a rise in gonorrhoea infections, and according to a spokesperson for the Sydney Sexual Health Centre, there is anecdotal evidence of an increase in other STDs. Tapsall said the increase was not an "isolated phenomenon" in Sydney. He said increases in gonorrhoea infection are being reported in Melbourne, San Francisco and Seattle, predominantly among gay men. In 1996 the Sydney laboratory reported over 700 gonorrhoea isolates. This rose to 900 in 1997, and by the end of 1998 almost 1,400 isolates had been reported in NSW. South Eastern Sydney Area Health Service (SEAHS) have also experienced an upsurge in infections in inner Sydney with 506 cases reported in 1998 compared to 293 in 1997 and 261 in 1996. AIDS Council of NSW chief executive officer Robert Griew said the increase was making "more people vulnerable to HIV infection" and was "very dangerous to positive people’s health". In 1997, a study published in The Lancet found the viral load in HIV positive men with gonorrhoea was eight times higher. Surry Hills Medical Centre are holding an information session on gonorrhoea To register phone 9699 3311.
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