Communicable Diseases Surveillance - Additional reports

This report published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Volume 24 Issue, Number 6, June 2000 contains quarterly reports and data from a number of disease surveillance programs which report regularly to Communicable Diseases Intelligence.

Page last updated: 13 July 2000

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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 (Australian Capital Territory, 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, and annually in HIV/AIDS and related diseases in Australia Annual Surveillance Report. The reports are 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; http://www.med.unsw.edu.au/nchecr.

HIV and AIDS diagnoses and deaths following AIDS reported for 1 to 31 January 2000, as reported to 30 April 2000, are included in this issue of CDI (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 January 2000, by sex and State or Territory of diagnosis

  ACT NSW NT Qld SA Tas Vic WA Totals for Australia
This period 2000 This period 1999 Year to date 2000 Year to date 1999
HIV diagnoses          Female
0
3
0
2
0
0
2
2
9
3
9
3
Male
3
34
1
11
1
0
15
4
69
47
69
47
Sex not reported
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
1
0
Total1
3
38
1
13
1
0
18
6
80
50
80
50
AIDS diagnoses       Female
1
2
0
0
0
0
1
0
4
0
4
0
Male
0
9
0
3
0
0
6
1
19
10
19
10
Total1
1
11
0
3
0
0
7
1
23
10
23
10
AIDS deaths       Female
1
0
0
1
0
0
1
0
3
0
3
0
Male
0
1
0
0
0
0
1
1
3
21
3
21
Total1
1
1
0
1
0
0
2
1
6
22
6
22

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 January 2000, by sex and State or Territory

  State or Territory Australia
ACT NSW NT Qld SA Tas Vic WA
HIV diagnoses Female
26
603
11
150
61
5
212
115
1,183
Male
224
10,837
109
1,976
673
79
3,887
912
18,697
Sex not reported
0
254
0
0
0
0
24
0
278
Total1
250
11,713
120
2,133
734
84
4,137
1,031
20,202
AIDS diagnoses Female
9
186
0
47
25
3
69
26
365
Male
86
4,641
36
821
345
44
1,612
349
7,934
Total1
95
4,839
36
870
370
47
1,688
377
8,322
AIDS deaths Female
4
113
0
32
15
2
49
16
231
Male
65
3,168
24
564
230
29
1,268
248
5,596
Total1
69
3,289
24
598
245
31
1,323
265
5,844


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


This article was published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Volume 24, No 6, June 2000.

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