Reports on HIV/AIDS: 1990

NOVEMBER 30, 1990, MMWR, Vol. 39, No. 47, pp. 853, 859-861
TABLE 1. Status of HIV-infection reporting - United States, October 1, 1990
HIV reporting required
Name* Anonymoust HIV reporting not required5
Alabama Georgia Alaska
Arizona Illinois California
Arkansas Iowa Connecticut
Colorado Kansas Delaware
Idaho Kentucky District of Columbia
Indiana Maine Florida
Michigan' Montana Hawaii
Minnesota Nevada Louisiana
Mississippi New Jersey** Marylandtt
Missouri Oregon Massachusetts
North Carolina Rhode Island Nebraska
North Dakota Texas New Hampshire
Ohio New Mexico
Oklahoma New York
South Carolina Pennsylvania
South Dakota Tennessee
Utah Vermont
Virginia Washingtontt
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
*Names of HIV-infected persons are provided to local or state health departments.
tlndividual reports of persons with HIV infection are provided to local or state health departments. Reports may contain demographic and transmission category information but do not
record identifiers.
"Some states receive HIV reports on a voluntary basis.
';Names are reported to the local health department only.
**New Jersey has passed but not implemented legislation requiring HIV reporting by name;
current reporting regulations allow the implementation of anonymous HIV reporting only.
ttRequires HIV reports with names for symptomatic HIV-infected persons only.
Editorial Note: In May 1989, the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists
(CSTE) recommended that CDC provide technical assistance to states with required
HIV-infection reporting to implement a standardized surveillance system for the
reporting of HIV-infected persons. CSTE also recommended that states that require
HIV reporting should provide data on HIV-infected persons (but without personal
identifiers) to CDC. The recommended elements for a standardized HIV-reporting
system include age, sex, race/ethnicity; transmission category; state of residence;
laboratory test results and clinical status; and an identifier that can be used to exclude
duplicate reports (2). A standardized HIV-infection reporting system that is similar to
that used for national AIDS surveillance has been developed.
Twenty of the states that require reporting by name submit to CDC reports of
HIV-infected persons who do not meet the CDC AIDS case definition; these reports to
CDC do not contain names and other personal identifying information. All 50 states
and the District of Columbia will continue to report persons who meet the AIDS case
definition.

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