HIV and AIDS in Canada

Surveillance Report to June 30, 2006

November 2006

Surveillance and Risk Assessment Division
Centre for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control
Public Health Agency of Canada

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Acknowledgements: National level HIV and AIDS surveillance is possible as a result of all provinces and territories participating in, and setting directions for, HIV and AIDS surveillance. Accordingly, the Public Health Agency of Canada acknowledges the provincial/territorial HIV/AIDS coordinators, laboratories, health care providers and reporting physicians for providing the non-nominal confi dential data that enable this report to be published. Without their close collaboration and participation in HIV and AIDS surveillance, the publication of this report would not have been possible. A complete listing of these contributors is available in Appendix 5.

N.B. This document must be cited as the source for any information extracted and used from it.

Suggested citation: Public Health Agency of Canada. HIV and AIDS in Canada. Surveillance Report to June 30, 2006. Surveillance and Risk Assessment Division, Centre for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Public Health Agency of Canada, 2006.

Surveillance and Risk Assessment Division
Centre for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control
Public Health Agency of Canada
Tunney's Pasture, AL 0602B
Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0K9
Tel: (613) 954-5169 Fax: (613) 957-2842

Information to the readers of HIV and AIDS in Canada

On behalf of the HIV/AIDS Surveillance Section, I would like to present you with the HIV and AIDS in Canada: Surveillance Report to June 30, 2006. This report is part of a semi-annual series providing a review of available HIV and AIDS surveillance data in Canada.

The HIV/AIDS Surveillance section is part of the Surveillance and Risk Assessment Division, at the Public Health Agency of Canada. This section is responsible for data collection and management, analysis and report production. In addition, we continue to improve data quality, defi ne and set surveillance standards, as well as support the use of these data to infl uence programmatic and policy action.

A further description of HIV and AIDS surveillance data is available in the HIV/AIDS Epi Updates reports that are also available on our website listed on the front cover of this report.

The publication of this report would not be possible without the submission of HIV and AIDS surveillance data from all provinces and territories. Their ongoing contribution to national HIV and AIDS surveillance is gratefully acknowledged and is further listed in Appendix 5.

Yours Sincerely,

Jennifer Geduld, MHSc BSc
Manager
HIV/AIDS Surveillance Section
Surveillance and Risk Assessment Division

Table of Contents

Highlights
Tables
Section I HIV in Canada: Positive HIV Test Reports to June 30, 2006 and Reported to PHAC up to August 11, 2006
1.	Number of positive HIV test reports by year of test (all ages)
2.	Cumulative number of positive HIV test reports occurring in adults and children by gender between November 1, 1985, and June 30, 2006
3.	Number of positive HIV test reports among adults (≥ 15 years) by year of test and gender
4A.	Number of positive HIV test reports by age group and year of test
4B.	Number of positive HIV test reports among males by age group and year of test
4C.	Number of positive HIV test reports among females by age group and year of test
5A.	Number and percentage distribution of positive HIV test reports among adults (≥ 15 years) by exposure category and year of test
5B.	Number and percentage distribution of positive HIV test reports among adult males (≥ 15 years) by exposure category and year of test
5C.	Number and percentage distribution of positive HIV test reports among adult females (≥ 15 years) by exposure category and year of test
5D.	Number and percentage distribution of positive HIV test reports among children (< 15 years) by exposure category and year of test
5E.	Number of positive HIV test reports by exposure category and age group between January 1, 2006, and June 30, 2006
6A.	Number of positive HIV test reports by province/territory and gender between November 1, 1985, and June 30, 2006 (all ages)
6B.	Number of positive HIV test reports by province/territory and year of test (all ages)
7.	Number of postitive HIV test reports by exposure category and province/territory between January 1, 2006, and June 30, 2006 (all ages)
8.	Number of positive HIV test reports by year of test and ethnic status for those provinces/ territories that submitted ethnicity data between 1998 and June 30, 2006 (all ages)
Section II Report of the Canadian Perinatal HIV Surveillance Program
Section III AIDS in Canada: AIDS Surveillance to June 30, 2006 and reported to PHAC up to August 11, 2006
13.	Number of reported AIDS cases by year of diagnosis (all ages)
14.	Cumulative number of reported AIDS cases occurring in adults and children by gender between 1979 and June 30, 2006
15.	Number of reported AIDS cases among adults (≥ 15 years) by year of diagnosis and gender
16A.	Number of reported AIDS cases by age group and year of diagnosis
16B.	Number of reported AIDS cases among males by age group and year of diagnosis
16C.	Number of reported AIDS cases among females by age group and year of diagnosis
17A.	Number and percentage distribution of reported AIDS cases among adult (≥ 15 years) by exposure category and year of diagnosis
17B.	Number and percentage distribution of reported AIDS cases among adult males (≥ 15 years) by exposure category and year of diagnosis
17C.	Number and percentage distribution of reported AIDS cases among adult females (≥ 15 years) by exposure category and year of diagnosis
17D.	Number and percentage distribution of reported AIDS cases among children (< 15 years) by exposure category and year of diagnosis
17E.	Number of reported AIDS cases among adults (≥ 15 years) by exposure category and age group between 1979 and June 30, 2006
17F.	Number of reported AIDS cases among children (< 15 years) by exposure category and age group between 1979 and June 30, 2006
18A.	Number of reported AIDS cases by province/ territory and gender between 1979 and June 30, 2006 (all ages)
18B.	Number of reported AIDS cases by province/ territory and year of diagnosis (all ages)
18C.	Number of reported AIDS cases among males by province/territory and year of diagnosis (all ages)
18D.	Number of reported AIDS cases among females by province/territory and year of diagnosis (all ages)
19.	Number and percentage distribution of reported AIDS cases by province/territory and exposure category to June 30, 2005 (all ages)
20.	Number of reported AIDS cases by year of diagnosis and ethnic status (all ages)
SECTION IV Mortality due to HIV/AIDS in Canada: Surveillance to June 30, 2006 and Reported to PHAC up to August 11, 2006
21.	Reported deaths among reported AIDS cases by year of death (all ages)
22.	Cumulative number of reported deaths among reported AIDS cases occurring in adults and children by age of death and gender between 1979 and June 30, 2006
23.	Reported deaths among reported AIDS cases among adults (≥ 15 years) and children by year of death
24.	Reported deaths among reported AIDS cases among adults (≥ 15 years) by year of death and gender
Section V International Statistics on AIDS
Appendices
	Appendix 1. Technical Notes
	Appendix 2. Data Limitations
	Appendix 3. Terminology
	Appendix 4. References
	Appendix 5. Data Sources

Highlights

HIV and AIDS diagnoses to June 2006

Total HIV and AIDS diagnoses to June 2006

• A total of 61,423 diagnoses of HIV infection have been reported to the Public Health Agency of Canada from November 1985, (when reporting began) up to June 30, 2006.
• 20,493 diagnoses of AIDS from 1979 to June 2006.

HIV diagnoses from January to June 2006

• For the first six months of 2006, a total of 1,232 diagnoses of HIV were reported, compared to 1,234 HIV diagnoses in the first half of 2005.
• For the first half of 2006, 74.3% were male, 25.7% were female.
• 47% were among men who have sex with men, 10.3% among injecting drug users, 33.5% among heterosexual contact exposure category.

Limitations

• It is important to be cautious when interpreting the surveillance data for the first half of the reporting year due to small sample sizes, delays and underreporting.
• the province of Quebec has not submitted AIDS data to PHAC since June 30, 2003, therefore annual trends for reported AIDS diagnoses beyond the year 2003 are limited.

Further information

• A description of the routine surveillance of HIV and AIDS in Canada is available in our year end surveillance report (http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/aids-sida/publication/index.html#surveillance)
  and further information about these data are available in the HIV/AIDS Epi Updates 2006 (http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/publicat/epiu-aepi/epi-06/index.html).
• Information about the estimated incidence and prevalence of HIV in Canada is available in Canada Communicable Disease Report, 1 August 2006, Volume 32 (15).

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