Communicable Diseases Surveillance: HIV and AIDS surveillance

This report published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Volume 22, Number 4, 16 April 1998, contains data from the HIV/AIDS surveillance program for the period 1 to 31 October 1997.

Page last updated: 16 April 1998

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National surveillance for HIV disease is coordinated by the National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research (NCHECR), in collaboration with State and Territory health authorities and the Commonwealth of Australia. Cases of HIV infection are notified to the National HIV Database on the first occasion of diagnosis in Australia, by either the diagnosing laboratory (ACT, New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria) or by a combination of laboratory and doctor sources (Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia). Cases of AIDS are notified through the State and Territory health authorities to the National AIDS Registry. Diagnoses of both HIV infection and AIDS are notified with the person's date of birth and name code, to minimise duplicate notifications while maintaining confidentiality.

Tabulations of diagnoses of HIV infection and AIDS are based on data available three 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 and AIDS is published in the quarterly Australian HIV Surveillance Report, available from the National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, 376 Victoria Street, Darlinghurst NSW 2010. Telephone: (02) 9332 4648 Facsimile: (02) 9332 1837.

HIV and AIDS diagnoses and deaths following AIDS reported for October 1998, as reported to 31 January 1998, are included in this issue of CDI (Tables 7 and 8).

Table 7. New diagnoses of HIV infection, new diagnoses of AIDS and deaths following AIDS occurring in the period 1 to 31 October 1997, by sex and State or Territory of diagnosis

  State orterritory Totals for Australia
ACT NSW NT Qld SA Tas Vic WA This period 1997 This period 1996 Year to date 1997 Year to date 1996
HIV diagnoses Female
0
4
1
0
0
0
1
0
6
3
64
59
Male
0
20
0
1
3
0
10
5
39
72
539
686
Sex not reported
0
4
0
0
0
0
0
0
4
1
25
5
Total1
0
28
1
1
3
0
11
5
49
76
628
751
AIDS diagnoses Female
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
1
2
21
25
Male
0
5
0
2
1
0
4
2
14
38
244
536
Total1
0
5
0
3
1
0
4
2
15
40
265
561
AIDS deaths Female
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
1
0
11
15
Male
0
3
0
0
2
0
6
1
12
34
188
413
Total1
0
3
0
0
2
0
7
1
13
34
200
428

1. Persons whose sex was reported as transgender are included in the totals.


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Table 8. Cumulative diagnoses of HIV infection, AIDS and deaths following AIDS since the introduction of HIV antibody testing to 31 October 1997, by sex and State or Territory

  ACT NSW NT Qld SA Tas Vic WA Australia
HIV diagnoses Female
21
504
6
114
49
4
191
81
970
Male
179
10,642
92
1,773
623
77
3,637
834
17,857
Sex not reported
0
2,066
0
1
0
0
28
1
2,096
Total1
200
13,225
98
1,893
672
81
3,866
919
20,954
AIDS diagnoses Female
7
157
0
42
19
2
59
23
309
Male
80
4,301
30
745
318
41
1,495
333
7,343
Total1
87
4,469
30
789
337
43
1,561
358
7,674
AIDS deaths Female
2
112
0
27
14
2
43
14
214
Male
52
3,025
23
522
214
26
1,190
240
5,292
Total1
54
3,144
23
551
228
28
1,239
255
5,522

1. Persons whose sex was reported as transgender are included in the totals.



This report was published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Vol 22 No 4, 16 April 1998.

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