Communicable diseases surveillance: Additional reports

This report contains the quarterly HIV and AIDS data tables for the period 1 October to 31 December 2011.

Page last updated: 21 December 2012

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HIV and AIDS surveillance

National surveillance for HIV disease is coordinated by the Kirby Institute, in collaboration with state and territory health authorities and the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing. Cases of HIV infection are notified to the National HIV Registry 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 3 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, viral hepatitis and sexually transmissible infections in Australia, annual surveillance report’. The reports are available from the Kirby Institute, CFI Building, Cnr Boundary and West Streets, Darlinghurst NSW 2010. Internet: http://hiv.cms.med.unsw.edu.au/ Telephone: +61 2 9385 0900. Facsimile: +61 2 9385 0920. For more information see Commun Dis Intell 2012;36(1):123.

HIV and AIDS diagnoses and deaths following AIDS reported for 1 October to 31 December 2011, are included in this issue of Communicable Diseases Intelligence (Tables 1 and 2).

Table 1: Number of new diagnoses of HIV infection, new diagnoses of AIDS and deaths following AIDS occurring in the period 1 October to 31 December 2011, by sex and state or territory of diagnosis

    State or territory Totals for Australia
 
Sex
ACT NSW NT Qld SA Tas Vic WA This period 2011 This period 2010 YTD 2011 YTD 2010
HIV diagnoses
Female
0
6
0
9
3
1
7
10
36
36
142
150
Male
3
79
1
40
7
1
74
24
229
196
994
896
Not reported
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Total*
3
85
1
49
10
2
82
34
266
232
1,137
1,051
AIDS diagnoses
Female
0
1
0
1
0
0
2
1
5
2
17
12
Male
0
2
0
1
0
2
12
3
20
34
98
112
Total*
0
3
0
2
0
2
14
4
25
36
115
124
AIDS deaths
Female
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
3
1
Male
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
7
21
22
Total*
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
7
24
23

* Totals include people whose sex was reported as transgender.

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Table 2: Number of new diagnoses of HIV infection since the introduction of HIV antibody testing 1985, and number of new diagnoses of AIDS and deaths following AIDS since 1981, cumulative to 31 December 2011, by sex and state or territory

State or territory  
Sex
ACT NSW NT Qld SA Tas Vic WA Aust
HIV diagnoses
Female
40
1,075
32
425
147
26
533
333
2,611
Male
302
15,191
171
3,642
1,153
152
6,551
1,546
28,708
Not reported
0
227
0
0
0
0
22
0
249
Total*
342
16,528
203
4,076
1,301
178
7,131
1,886
31,645
AIDS diagnoses
Female
10
289
6
81
33
4
136
51
610
Male
95
5,672
53
1,116
428
58
2,252
475
10,149
Total*
105
5,980
59
1,199
462
62
2,401
528
10,796
AIDS deaths
Female
7
144
1
44
20
2
67
30
315
Male
73
3,624
33
687
281
34
1,472
301
6,505
Total*
80
3,779
34
733
301
36
1,548
332
6,843

* Totals include people whose sex was reported as transgender.