Communicable Diseases Surveillance - Additional reports

This report published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Volume 22, No 13, 24 December 1998 contains an analysis and tables of monthly notifiable diseases and laboratory data, and quarterly surveillance reports.

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HIV and AIDS Surveillance

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 1 to 31 July 1998, as reported to 31 October 1998, are included in this issue of Commun Dis Intell (Tables 6 and 7).

Table 6. New diagnoses of HIV infection, new diagnoses of AIDS and deaths following AIDS occurring in the period 1 to 31 July 1998, by sex and State or Territory of diagnosis

  State or territory Totals for Australia
  ACT NSW NT Qld SA Tas Vic WA This period 1998 This period 1997 Year to date 1998 Year to date 1997
HIV diagnoses Female
0
7
0
2
0
0
1
4
14
5
52
39
  Male
0
29
0
8
1
0
5
4
47
62
375
431
  Sex not reported
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
6
11
  Total1
0
36
0
10
1
0
6
8
61
68
433
482
AIDS diagnoses Female
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
3
7
19
  Male
0
4
0
1
0
0
3
0
8
21
110
186
  Total1
0
5
0
1
0
0
3
0
9
24
117
205
AIDS deaths Female
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
5
9
  Male
0
6
0
0
0
0
1
0
7
15
58
141
  Total1
0
7
0
0
0
0
1
0
8
17
63
151

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



Table 7. Cumulative diagnoses of HIV infection, AIDS and deaths following AIDS since the introduction of HIV antibody testing to 31 July 1998, by sex and State or Territory

  ACT NSW NT Qld SA Tas Vic WA Australia
HIV diagnoses Female
22
559
7
130
54
4
195
94
1,065
  Male
183
10,366
98
1,840
637
77
3,712
864
17,777
  Sex not reported
0
259
0
0
0
0
25
0
284
  Total1
205
11,203
105
1,976
691
81
3,945
961
19,167
AIDS diagnoses Female
8
160
0
45
20
2
64
23
322
  Male
82
4,388
32
766
324
41
1,551
337
7,521
  Total1
90
4,559
32
813
344
43
1,622
362
7,865
AIDS deaths Female
2
113
0
28
15
2
46
16
222
  Male
62
3,062
23
533
220
27
,1213
241
5,381
  Total1
64
3,182
23
563
235
29
1,265
258
5,619

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



This article was published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Volume 22, No 13, 24 December 1998.

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