Commentary/Technical Notes/Tables: Section 1. Diagnoses of HIV infection and diagnoses of infection classified as Stage 3 (AIDS); Section 2. Deaths and survival after a diagnosis of HIV infection or Stage 3 (AIDS) classification; Section 3. Persons living with diagnosed HIV infection or with infection ever classified as Stage 3 (AIDS) prevalence; Section 4. Data for states and metropolitan areas/Web addresses for reports of state and local HIV surveillance.
Data are presented for diagnoses of HIV infection reported to CDC through June 2012.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) collects, analyzes, and disseminates surveillance data on HIV infection; these data are one of the nation’s primary sources of information on HIV in the United States. The annual surveillance report, published by the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention (DHAP), summarizes information about diagnosed HIV infection in the United States and dependent areas. HIV surveillance data are used by CDC’s public health partners in other federal agencies, health departments, nonprofit organizations, academic institutions, and the general public to help focus prevention efforts, plan services, allocate resources, develop policy, and monitor trends in HIV infection. The 2011 HIV Surveillance Report marks the first time estimated numbers and rates of diagnoses of HIV infection have been included from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and 6 U.S. dependent areas (American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, the Republic of Palau, and the U.S. Virgin Islands). Because states implemented confidential name-based HIV infection reporting at different times, the displayed data on diagnosed HIV infection begin with data from 2008, the first year that all areas had name-based reporting. This report was prepared by the following CDC staff and contractors: Stacy Cohen, Xiaohong Hu, Daxa Shah, Anne Patala, Sabitha Dasari, Anna Satcher Johnson, Irene Hall, Timothy Green, Marie Morgan, Michael Friend, Kim Elmore, Ruiguang Song, John Gerstle, Sridevi Wilmore, Jianmin Li, Xiuchan Guo, the HIV Incidence and Case Surveillance Branch, the Quantitative Sciences and Data Management Branch, and the Prevention Communication Branch.
Suggested citation: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. HIV Surveillance Report, 2011; vol. 23. http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/surveillance/resources/reports/. Published February 2013. Accessed [date].