A REPORT by researchers has revealed that rates of HIV infection in Australia have increased by almost 50 per cent in the past eight years.
According to latest figures, Australia now has around 10,000 cases of AIDS, and more than 27,000 people infected with HIV.
Researchers say the rise has been fuelled by the country’s mining boom, with wealthy miners and businessmen contracting the virus through unprotected sex while on holidays abroad.
“It appears to be chiefly men who are holidaying in South East Asia and Papua New Guinea,” said a spokesman from the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations.
