Reports on HIV/AIDS: 1990

DECEMBER 7, 1990, MMWR, Vol. 39, No. 48, p. 884
Report on National HIV Seroprevalence Surveys
CDC collaborates with state and local health departments, other federal agencies,
blood collection agencies, and medical research institutions to conduct human
immunodeficiency virus (HIV) seroprevalence surveys in a variety of sentinel populations. Together these surveys constitute a serosurveillance network to monitor the
prevalence of HIV infection in the United States. This "family" of surveys includes
studies among patients at sexually transmitted disease clinics, drug-treatment centers, women's health clinics, and tuberculosis clinics in 44 cities; patients at sentinel
hospitals in 30 cities and in a network of ambulatory-care practices; childbearing
women in 44 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico; and blood donors,
applicants for military service, and Job Corps entrants (Figure 1).
Single copies of the publication, National HIV Seroprevalence Surveys-Summary
of Results: Data from Serosurveillance Activities through 1989 (1 ), are available free
of charge from the National AIDS Information Clearinghouse, P.O. Box 6003, Rockville, MD 20850; telephone [phone].
Reference
1. CDC. National HIV seroprevalence surveys-summary of results: data from serosurveillance
activities through 1989. Atlanta: US Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health
Service, 1990; DHHS publication no. (CDC)HIV/CID/9-90/006.
FIGURE 1. Metropolitan areas and states participating in national HIV seroprevalence
surveys - United States, 1988 and 1989

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