Communicable Diseases Surveillance - Additional reports

This report published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Volume 23, No 2, 18 February 1999 contains the quarterly surveillance reports for HIV/AIDS.

Page last updated: 24 March 1999

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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 (website address: http://www.med.unsw.edu.au/nchecr).

HIV and AIDS diagnoses and deaths following AIDS reported for 1 September to 30 September 1998, as reported to 31 December 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 September to 30 September 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 1999 This period 1998 Year to date 1999 Year to date 1998
HIV diagnoses Female
0
3
1
1
0
0
1
2
8
10
69
58
  Male
0
34
0
5
3
0
9
1
52
59
477
542
  Sex not reported
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
6
12
  Total1
0
37
1
6
3
0
10
3
60
70
552
613
AIDS diagnoses Female
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
7
21
  Male
0
7
0
5
0
1
1
0
14
21
170
240
  Total1
0
7
0
5
0
1
1
0
14
22
177
261
AIDS deaths Female
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
1
1
7
10
  Male
0
5
1
2
1
0
5
0
14
16
81
177
  Total1
0
5
1
3
1
0
5
0
15
17
88
188

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 December 1998, by sex and State or Territory

  State or Territory  
  ACT NSW NT Qld SA Tas Vic WA Australia
HIV diagnoses Female
22
566
8
132
54
4
198
99
1,083
  Male
183
10,430
99
1,851
640
77
3,708
866
17,854
  Sex not reported
0
259
0
0
0
0
24
0
283
  Total1
205
11,274
107
1,989
694
81
3,943
968
19,261
AIDS diagnoses Female
8
162
0
45
20
2
64
23
324
  Male
82
4,439
32
773
325
43
1,559
337
7,590
  Total1
90
4,612
32
820
345
45
1,630
362
7,936
AIDS deaths Female
2
113
0
30
15
2
46
16
224
  Male
62
3,071
24
535
222
27
1,221
241
5,403
  Total1
64
3,191
24
567
237
29
1,273
258
5,643

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



This article was published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Volume 23, No 2, 18 February 1999.

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