NSW Tuberculosis Surveillance Report 2024: Overseas-born cases

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Residency status of overseas-born tuberculosis cases at diagnosis in NSW, 2024
Years spent in Australia prior to diagnosis, overseas-born cases in NSW, 2024
Reported risk factors for tuberculosis among overseas-born cases in NSW, 2024

Residency status of overseas-born tuberculosis cases at diagnosis in NSW, 2024

Visa status	Number of cases	Percentage
Permanent overseas-born Australian resident/citizen	241	51%
Temporary overseas student	108	23%
Temporary skilled work/business	35	7%
Temporary visitor/tourist	24	5%
Temporary asylum seeker/humanitarian visa holder	17	4%
Other temporary visa	43	9%
No visa (non-citizen)	1	<1%
Unknown	7	1%
Total	476	100%

Cumulative proportion of NSW overseas-born cases by years lived in Australia prior to diagnosis, 2024

Almost 40% of cases had spent less than 3 years in Australia prior to diagnosis.

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Reported risk factors¹ among overseas-born cases in NSW, 2024

Risk factors	Number of cases	Percentage
Born in a high risk country²	457	96%
Household or close contact of TB	67	14%
Ever resided in a high-risk country (excluding country of birth)²	58	12%
Diabetes	43	9%
Immunosuppressive condition	39	8%
Previous TB disease	38	8%
Ever worked in healthcare	33	7%
Immunosuppressive medication	33	7%
Smoking	20	4%
Alcohol or drug abuse	8	2%
Renal replacement therapy/dialysis or end-stage renal failure	4	1%
Other	7	2%

Notes

Multiple risk factors can be recorded.
High risk country is those defined as countries with a TB incidence >40 cases per 100,000 population per year. For a current list of high risk countries see List of countries where tuberculosis (TB) is common.
Data for this report was extracted from Notifiable Conditions Records for Epidemiology and Surveillance, NSW Ministry of Health on 11 June 2025.

Current as at: Thursday 21 August 2025

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