Indeed there are cases of HIV in Tasmania with new cases being identified each year. A substantial number of people who may have HIV don't even know they have the infection because they've never been tested. At the moment most people with HIV in Tasmania are gay men or MSM (80-85%) however there are increasing numbers recently being picked up in women and in heterosexual men too. Remember sharing of injecting equipment is another way of getting HIV, although at the moment there are very few cases of HIV present in injecting drug users in Australia.

Last updated on September 2, 2009 by man2man