Conference Coverage (Retrovirus)

CDC Moves Closer to Name Reporting of HIV Positives

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, February 16th, 1998

The CDC is moving closer to calling for mandatory name-based reporting of positive HIV tests, according to a statement by the director of the CDC's AIDS surveillance division.

"It is the CDC's technical opinion that name-based surveillance ... is the system most likely to provide data necessary for tracking the epidemic," said Kevin M. De Cock, director of the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Surveillance, and Epidemiology at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He emphasized the word "technical."

De Cock's comments came in an invited lecture to the 5th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, held February 1-5,...

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