Territorians warned about HIV man

Canberra sex worker Hector Scott arrives at the ACT Magistrates Court, January 18, 2008. Scott is charged with knowingly transmitting a sexually transmitted disease and failing to register as a sex worker. (ABC News)

The Northern Territory Health Department says a male prostitute infected with HIV has had contact with people in the Territory.

Hector Scott, a 41-year-old Canberra man, has pleaded guilty in the ACT to charges of working while knowing he was infected with a sexually-transmitted disease.

The Health Department's Wendy Armstrong says authorities have been contacting everyone who may have had contact with Hector Scott and some of them are Territory residents.

"(It's a) fantastic job the ACT Health have done trawling through the ads and the mobile phone numbers and picking up and contacting all the numbers that were on the list which was more than 250," he said.

"We don't know the numbers, specific numbers (of Territorians who had contact with him but) I don't think it's anything we need to be alarmist about."

The department are reminding people to use condoms to avoid contracting sexually-transmitted infections।