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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2019-02-12" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, First Session (54-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
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      <name>Sexually Transmitted Infections and Bloodborne Viruses</name>
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          <heading>Sexually Transmitted Infections and Bloodborne Viruses</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="4363" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. T.A. FRANKS</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2019-02-12">
            <name>Sexually Transmitted Infections and Bloodborne Viruses</name>
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          <inserted>In reply to <by role="member" id="4363">the Hon. T.A. FRANKS </by>(16 October 2018).  </inserted>
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      <talker role="member" id="3164" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. S.G. WADE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Minister for Health and Wellbeing</name>
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        <questions>
          <question date="2019-02-12">
            <name>Sexually Transmitted Infections and Bloodborne Viruses</name>
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        <text id="20190212e98ef1b3b95e45b090000768">
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            <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing):</by>  I have been advised:</inserted>
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        <text id="20190212e98ef1b3b95e45b090000769">
          <inserted>The Young, Deadly Syphilis Free campaign is a commonwealth funded campaign with national reach across all jurisdictions affected by the syphilis outbreak, including remote regions in Queensland, Northern Territory and Western Australia and the Far North and Western and Eyre regions of South Australia. </inserted>
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          <inserted>The campaign's focus is on encouraging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people aged 15 to 34 to test for syphilis and other STIs to assist in bringing the outbreak under control. The aim of the campaign is that 30,000 young people in communities affected by the syphilis outbreak test for STIs by June 2019.</inserted>
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        <text id="20190212e98ef1b3b95e45b090000771">
          <inserted>The program outcomes, evaluation and data from the campaign are the property of the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute and the commonwealth Department of Health. This data has not yet been published.</inserted>
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