HIV Surveillance Report: Diagnoses of HIV Infection in the United States and Dependent Areas, 2018 (Preliminary)

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• Alternative Title:
  HIV Surveillance Report; Volume 30: Diagnoses of HIV Infection in the United States and Dependent Areas, 2018 (Preliminary)
• Personal Author:
  Johnson, Shacara ; Dailey, André ; Satcher Johnson, Anna ; Gant, Zanetta ; Hu, Xiaohong ; Li, Jianmin ; Wu, Baohua ; Yu, Chenchen ; Jin, Chan ; Morgan, Marie ; Friend, Michael ; Siddiqi, Azfar ; Hernandez, Angela
• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (U.S.) ; National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (U.S.). Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention
• Description:
  Commentary: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) collects, analyzes, and disseminates surveillance data on HIV infection; these data are one of the nation’s primary sources of information on HIV in the United States. The annual surveillance report, published by the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, summarizes information about diagnosed HIV infection in the United States and dependent areas. HIV surveillance data are used by CDC’s public health partners in other federal agencies, health departments, nonprofit organizations, academic institutions, and the general public to help focus prevention efforts; plan services; allocate resources; develop policy; detect, monitor, and intervene in HIV clusters; and monitor trends in HIV infection. This issue of the HIV Surveillance Report presents and interprets trends in diagnoses for 2013–2017 and provides preliminary data, based on a 6-month reporting delay, for 2018. Recognizing the changing needs for data, CDC will transition, beginning in 2020, to publishing the annual report earlier in the calendar year and will include data reported to CDC’s National HIV Surveillance System (NHSS) through December 31 of the prior year (instead of June 30). The use of data reported to CDC through December will allow for a 12-month reporting lag, and in early 2020, CDC will release a second report of 2018 data that will present and interpret trends in HIV diagnoses through 2018 (the most recent diagnosis year provided). Future editions of the HIV Surveillance Report will be published according to the new time line. Numbers and rates of diagnoses of HIV infection during 2013–2017 and preliminary numbers for 2018 are based on data from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and 6 U.S. dependent areas (American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, the Republic of Palau, and the U.S. Virgin Islands). During 2013–2017, the annual rate of diagnoses of HIV infection in the United States decreased; the annual number of diagnoses remained stable. Numbers and rates of diagnoses of HIV infection increased in some subgroups and decreased in others. Variations in trends among groups are expected and may be due to differences in testing behaviors, targeted HIV testing initiatives, or changes in the numbers of new HIV infections (incidence) in some subgroups. (For slide sets of trends among selected populations [2010–2017], see Additional Resources.)
• Subjects:
  Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Epidemiology Data Interpretation, Statistical Epidemics Epidemiological Monitoring HIV Public Health Surveillance Statistics Tables
• Keywords:
  DHP_HIV_Reports
• Series:
  HIV Surveillance Report
• Subseries:
  HIVSR
• Publisher:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (U.S.)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Statistics ; Report
• Place as Subject:
  United States ; American Samoa ; Guam ; Northern Mariana Islands ; Puerto Rico ; Republic of Palau ; U.S. Virgin Islands
• Rights:
  Public Domain
• CIO:
  National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP)
• Division:
  DHP - Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention
• Topic:
  Diseases & Conditions
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  129 pdf pages
• Volume:
  30
• Citation:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. HIV Surveillance Report, 2018 (Preliminary); vol. 30. http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/library/reports/hiv-surveillance.html. Published November 2019. Accessed [date].
• Collection(s):
  Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/149034/cdc_149034_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
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