title: HIV--Australasian experience. Current status of HIV infection in Australasia.
abstract: The HIV/AIDS pandemic continues to evolve in a volatile and heterogeneous fashion and is now best described as a series of different but related epidemics, all posing their own particular problems. The response to the first decade of the epidemic in Australasia has been effective in a number of ways, but much remains to be done. The problems raised by recent cases of transmission of HIV in a health care setting have yet to be resolved. The characteristics of the local epidemic are increasingly divergent from the overseas models used to date, necessitating a flexible and creative approach tailored to the particular characteristics and needs of the local communities.
authors.forename: D C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Sutherland
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia / Q000453:epidemiology; D017742:Dental Care for Chronically Ill; D004990:Ethics, Dental; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000635:transmission; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D017758:Infectious Disease Transmission, Patient-to-Professional; D017757:Infectious Disease Transmission, Professional-to-Patient; D008297:Male; D009520:New Zealand / Q000453:epidemiology; D015995:Prevalence