Includes only persons with HIV infection that has not progressed to AIDS.

Includes data from 47 states and from 5 U.S. dependencies, possessions, and independent nations in free association with the U.S. with confidential name-based HIV infection reporting as of December 2007. U.S. total also includes persons whose state or area of residence is unknown.
Data on HIV infection cases from areas with name-to-code and code-based surveillance are not included in the HIV data tables pending evaluations demonstrating acceptable performance under CDC guidelines and the development of methods to report such data to CDC.

HIV reporting was initiated during the following years: 1985 (Colorado, Minnesota, Wisconsin); 1986 (Idaho, South Carolina); 1987 (Arizona, Missouri); 1988 (Alabama, Indiana, Mississippi, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota); 1989 (Arkansas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wyoming); 1990 (North Carolina, Ohio); 1992 (Connecticut - Children Only, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, Tennessee); 1993 (Louisiana); 1995 (Nebraska); 1997 (Florida); 1998 (Iowa, New Mexico, Virgin Islands); 1999 (Alaska, Kansas, Texas); 2000 (New York, Guam); 2001 (American Samoa, N. Mariana Islands); 2002 (Pennsylvania); 2003 (Georgia, Puerto Rico); 2004 (Kentucky); 2005 (Connecticut - All Cases, New Hampshire); 2006 (California, Delaware, District of Columbia, Illinois, Maine, Montana, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington); 2007 (Massachusetts).

Table 18, HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report: Cases of HIV Infection and AIDS in the United States and Dependent Areas, 2007, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Health and Human Services, 2009. Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/surveillance/resources/reports/2007report/default.htm.

Name-to-code system: Names are collected and, after any necessary public health follow-up, names are converted to codes.
Code-based system: Codes are used instead of names.
NA: State does not have confidential name-based reporting.

1. U.S. total includes persons from the Pacific Islands and 1,013 persons who reported from areas with confidential name-based HIV infection reporting but who were residents of other areas and 1,248 persons who reported from areas with confidential name-based HIV infection reporting but whose area of residence is unknown.