Establishment of a sentinel surveillance network for sexually transmissible infections and blood borne viruses in Aboriginal primary care services across Australia: the ATLAS project

• DOI: 10.1186/s12913-020-05388-y
• Publication Date: 2020-08-20T07:04:44Z
• Authors: Clare Bradley; Belinda Hengel; Katy Crawford; Salenna Elliott; Basil Donovan; Donna B. Mak; Barbara Nattabi; David Johnson; Rebecca Guy; Christopher K. Fa...; Handan Wand; James Ward; ; David Lewis; Frank Bowden; Christine Selvey; Lisa Bastian; Gracelyn Smallwood
• Keywords: Health administration

Sexually transmissible infection (STI) and blood-borne virus (BBV) diagnoses data are a core component of the Australian National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS). However, NNDSS alone is not enough to understand STI BBV burden among priority population groups, like Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander people, because it lacks testing, treatment management data. Here, we describe processes involved in establishing sentinel surveillance network representative Community-Controlled Health Services (ACCHS)-known as ATLAS network-to augment help us disease due peoples.