Chlamydia and young people
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NCHSR is partially funded by the Australian Department of Health and Ageing. © 2010 National Centre in HIV Social Research, The University of New South Wales Photograph on page 1 copyright Bigstockphoto Chlamydia is the most commonly diagnosed sexually transmissible infection (STI) in Australia. There were 58,456 notifications recorded in 2008, almost double the number of notifications in 2003 (30,193) [1-2]. There is evidence to suggest that increases in chlamydia notifications could be due to increased testing [3].
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