Communicable Diseases Surveillance - Additional reports

This report published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Volume 24, No 12, December 2000 contains an analysis and tables of monthly notifiable diseases and laboratory data, and quarterly surveillance reports.

Page last updated: 22 January 2001

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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 (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. Internet: http://www.med.unsw.edu.au/nchecr. Telephone: (02) 9332 4648. Facsimile: (02) 9332 1837.

HIV and AIDS diagnoses and deaths following AIDS reported for 1 to 31 July 2000, as reported to 31 October 2000, are included in this issue of Commun Dis Intell (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 July 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
1
0
2
0
8
10
47
44
Male
1
22
0
7
1
0
13
0
44
63
379
371
Sex not reported
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Total1
1
25
0
9
2
0
15
0
52
73
428
415
AIDS diagnoses Female
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
9
9
Male
0
4
0
2
0
0
2
0
8
9
98
80
Total1
0
4
0
2
0
0
2
0
8
11
107
89
AIDS deaths Female
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
5
3
Male
0
5
0
0
0
0
2
2
9
11
64
68
Total1
0
5
0
0
0
0
2
2
9
12
69
72

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


Table 8. Cumulative diagnoses of HIV infection, AIDS and deaths following AIDS since the introduction of HIV antibody testing to 31 July 2000, by sex and State or Territory

  State or Territory Australia
  ACT NSW NT Qld SA Tas Vic WA
HIV diagnoses Female
28
616
9
160
62
5
221
119
1,220
Male
226
11,109
108
2,031
682
78
3,955
926
19,115
Sex not reported
0
246
0
0
0
0
24
0
270
Total1
254
11,992
117
2,198
744
83
4,214
1,049
20,651
AIDS diagnoses Female
9
188
0
49
25
3
71
26
371
Male
87
4,688
35
832
347
45
1,647
356
8,037
Total1
96
4,888
35
883
372
48
1,726
384
8,432
AIDS deaths Female
4
114
0
32
15
2
49
17
233
Male
66
3,219
24
571
231
29
1,281
252
5,673
Total1
70
3,341
24
605
246
31
1,336
270
5,923

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


This article was published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Volume 24, No 12, December 2000.

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