CANBERRA, Oct. 17 (Xinhua) -- The number of HIV diagnoses has gradually risen in the past decade in Australia, with an 8 percent increase in new cases diagnosed just last year, according to a latest research report on Wednesday.
According to figures from the report, there were 1,137 people in Australia newly-diagnosed with HIV in 2011, an 8.2 percent increase on the previous year.
The report by the University of NSW's infection and immunity unit, the Kirby Institute, also found rates of the sexually transmittable infections chlamydia and gonorrhoea had jumped, the latter by 45 per cent in just three years.
The increase came after a plateau in the number of new cases between 2007 and 2010, when new diagnoses ranged from between 1000 and 1050 a year, researcher Associate Professor David Wilson from NSW's Kirby Institute said.
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