The Kirby Institute

Introduction

National surveillance for HIV infection is coordinated by the Kirby Institute, in collaboration with state and territory health authorities and the Australian Government Department of Health. Cases of HIV infection are notified to the National HIV Registry on the first occasion of diagnosis in Australia, by either the diagnosing laboratory (Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria) or by a combination of laboratory and doctor sources (Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia). Diagnoses of HIV infection are notified with the person’s date of birth and name code, to minimise duplicate notifications while maintaining confidentiality.

Tabulations of newly diagnosed HIV infections are based on data available 3 months after the end of the reporting interval indicated, to allow for reporting delay and to incorporate newly available information. More detailed information on diagnoses of HIV infection is published in the quarterly Australian HIV Surveillance Report, and annually in the HIV, Viral Hepatitis and Sexually Transmissible Infections in Australia, Annual Surveillance Report. The reports are available from the Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales, SYDNEY NSW 2052. Internet: www.kirby.unsw.edu.au Telephone: +61 2 9385 0900. Facsimile: +61 2 9385 0920. For more information see Commun Dis Intell 2014;38(1):E96–E97.

Results

Newly diagnosed cases of HIV infection reported for 1 April to 30 June 2013, are shown in Tables 1 and 2).

Table 1: Number of new diagnoses of HIV infection, 1 April to 30 June 2013, by sex and state or territory of diagnosis

Sex	ACT	NSW	NT	Qld	SA	Tas.	Vic.	WA	Total 2nd qrt 2013	Total 2nd qrt 2012	YTD 2013	YTD 2012
* Totals include people whose sex was reported as transgender.
Female	2	9	3	8	5	0	6	9	42	40	82	84
Male	6	106	2	43	9	0	92	18	276	229	529	525
Not reported	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total*	8	115	5	51	14	0	98	27	318	270	611	610

 

Table 2: Cumulative number of new diagnoses of HIV infection since the introduction of HIV antibody testing, 1985 to 30 June 2013, by sex and state or territory

Sex	ACT	NSW	NT	Qld	SA	Tas.	Vic.	WA	Aust.
* Totals include people whose sex was reported as transgender.
Female	44	1,148	43	475	167	27	584	375	2,863
Male	343	16,629	197	4,005	1,231	173	7,182	1,705	31,465
Not reported	0	227	0	0	0	0	22	0	249
Total*	387	18,044	240	4,489	1,399	200	7,816	2,087	34,662

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