HIV Surveillance Report: Diagnoses of HIV Infection in the United States and Dependent Areas, 2015

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• Alternative Title:
  HIV Surveillance Report; Volume 27: Diagnoses of HIV Infection in the United States and Dependent Areas, 2015
• Personal Author:
  Hess, Kristen ; Dailey, André ; Satcher Johnson, Anna ; Hu, Xiaohong ; Li, Jianmin ; Wu, Baohua ; Zhu, Hong ; Yu, Chenchen ; Tang, Tian ; Chen, Mi ; Gerstle, John ; Morgan, Marie ; Friend, Michael ; Siddiqi, Azfar ; Hernandez, Angela ; Green, Timothy ; Hall, Irene
• 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, and monitor trends in HIV infection. Numbers and rates of diagnoses of HIV infection during 2010–2014 and preliminary numbers for 2015 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 2010–2014, the annual number and rate of diagnoses of HIV infection in the United States decreased. 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 in some subgroups.
  
  Report Changes: The 2015 HIV Surveillance Report marks the transition to presenting diagnosis, death, and prevalence data without statistical adjustments for delays in reporting of cases to CDC. CDC periodically assesses the portfolio of the National HIV Surveillance System (NHSS) to determine whether methods and efficiencies in data collection and analysis meet the information needs of the nation. In determining that adjustments for reporting delays were no longer necessary, CDC considered improvements in data quality as a result of the following: availability of additional case information; shorter time for processing duplicates from multiple states; a better system for national data processing. CDC will continue to statistically adjust transmission category data by using multiple imputation techniques to account for missing transmission category information in cases reported to CDC. (See the Technical Notes for information on multiple imputation.)
  
  For the assessment of trends, CDC recommends the use of reporting delays for recently reported data: 12 months for diagnosis data and 18 months for prevalence and death data. In this report, assessments of trends discussed in the Commentary are based on diagnoses and deaths that occurred during 2010–2014. The diagnosis and stage 3 (AIDS) classification data presented in this report for the year 2015 are considered preliminary (subject to change) because they are based on only a 6-month reporting delay. CDC cautions against using the 2015 data in this report for assessments of trends.
  
  In previous reports, prevalence and death data presented by jurisdiction or region were based on residence at HIV diagnosis; however, information on residence at diagnosis may not reflect a person’s current residence or where a person died. In this report, prevalence data presented by jurisdiction or region (Tables 18a/b–21a/b, 24–27) are based on a person’s most recent known address at year-end of the specified year, and death data presented by region are based on a person’s residence at death (Tables 12a/b–15a/b).
  
  
• Subjects:
  Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Epidemiology Data Interpretation, Statistical Epidemics Epidemiological Monitoring HIV HIV Infections HIV Infections / Epidemiology Public Health Surveillance Statistics Tables

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• 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:
  114 pdf pages
• Volume:
  27
• Citation:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. HIV Surveillance Report, 2015; vol. 27. http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/library/reports/hiv-surveillance.html. Published November 2016. Accessed [date].
• Collection(s):
  Infectious Diseases Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
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