Chapter 2 gets down to the nuts and bolts: How do you
begin to develop an HIV/AIDS epidemiologic profile? How do you determine
the scope, content, and organization of the profile? What skills are
required to prepare it? What data do you include? Where can you find
those data? Once you get the data, how should you analyze and interpret
them? Where can you get help? How do you address differences between
prevention and care guidelines and differences such as service area
boundaries, time frames, and due dates?
This chapter provides guidance for answering these
questions. Of particular importance are the basic concepts and
recommended methods for analyzing the profile data.
Establishing the foundation, presented in this chapter,
is critical for developing consistent profiles that meet the specific
needs of prevention and care planning groups.
Note. In this document, the term HIV/AIDS is used
to refer to three categories of cases: (1) new diagnoses of HIV
infection only, (2) new diagnoses of HIV infection with later diagnoses
of AIDS, and (3) concurrent diagnoses of HIV infection and AIDS.
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