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

Includes data from 45 states and from U.S. dependencies, possessions, and independent nations in free association with the U.S. with confidential name-based HIV infection reporting as of December 2006. 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, Illinois, Maine, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington).

Table 16, HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report: Cases of HIV Infection and AIDS in the United States, 2006, National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Health and Human Services, 2008.  Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/surveillance/resources/reports/2006report/pdf/2006SurveillanceReport.pdf

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.