Training sessions for local media on responsible
HIV reporting and coverage are also being carried out.
Later, in a session with local media, medical experts urged that
HIV reporting should be done in a humane and an empathetic manner.
Akanni in her paper entitled 'The role of Media in HIV/TB Response and Appropriate use of Language'' said that the use of language in
HIV reporting was very critical.
Although acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) has been reportable in all jurisdictions since the early 1980s, confidential name-based
HIV reporting was implemented over time in different jurisdictions.
Released in January by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the plan includes recommendations such as identifying providers serving American Indian and Alaska Native patients to encourage
HIV reporting to state and local health departments and analyzing HIV data separately by race and ethnicity.
Yet, because of prior restrictions on
HIV reporting and limited systematic linking of state TB and HIV surveillance systems, California has not been included in key national surveillance reports of HIV incidence (6) or death in persons with TB-HIV (7).
dependent areas with long-term, confidential, name-based
HIV reporting. In 2006, the rate of new HIV infection for black women was nearly 15 times as high as that of white women and nearly four times that of Hispanic/Latin a women.
Any Part B grantees who currently have name-based
HIV reporting systems, but that had not been collecting name-based HIV case counts long enough to include all cases, could face a reduction in fiscal year 2010 funding.
(The following bullets refer to the 33 states with long-term, confidential name-based
HIV reporting. See the box, before the References section, for a list of the 33 states.)
The numbers come from a subset of 33 states with longstanding, name-based
HIV reporting, says Jennifer Ruth, spokeswoman for the CDC's National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention.
State public health officials will take public comment in Eugene next month on proposed changes to the state's
HIV reporting rules.