Statistics

HIV Surveillance Branch

The HIV Surveillance Branch conducts epidemiologic surveillance through the ongoing and systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of data related to HIV incidence and prevalence in Alabama. Surveillance staff document and investigate HIV cases reported by physicians, hospitals, laboratories, and other sources; exchange needed information with agencies, states, and other reporting sources; and provide demographic data for use in targeting prevention programs.

The HIV Surveillance Branch is located in the Data Management Division of the Office of HIV Prevention and Care. The Surveillance Branch conducts epidemiologic surveillance through the ongoing and systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of data related to HIV incidence and prevalence in Alabama. Surveillance staff document and investigate HIV cases reported by physicians, hospitals, laboratories, and other sources; exchange needed information with agencies, states, and other reporting sources; and provide demographic data for use in targeting prevention programs.

Quarterly Reports

• • 2024 - Volume 3 (January-September)
  • 2024 - Volume 2 (January-June)
  • 2024 - Volume 1 (January-March)
  • 2023 - Volume 4 (January-December)

Continuum of HIV Care by Public Health District

The Preliminary 2023 HIV Continuum of Care depicts persons living with HIV (PWH) in Alabama who are engaged in selected stages of HIV treatment. Successful HIV Prevention and Care programs exhibit high linkage to care among newly diagnosed clients, as well as effective retention in care and adequate viral load suppression among existing HIV-positive clients. As viral load is considered a measure of infectivity, maintaining a suppressed viral load decreases the likelihood of infecting another person and is the focus of Treatment as Prevention strategies. PWH who adhere to antiretroviral treatment and maintain suppressed viral loads can reduce the risk of sexual transmission of HIV by 96 percent. For PWH who reach undetectable levels, there are no documented cases of sexual transmission. This is the premise of the Prevention Access Campaign's Undetectable Equals Untransmittable (U=U) initiative, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention supports, agreeing there is "effectively no risk" of sexually transmitting HIV when on treatment and undetectable.

• Finalized 2021 HIV Continuum of Care
• Finalized 2022 HIV Continuum of Care

Annual Reports

• 2019 HIV Surveillance Annual Report
• 2018 HIV Surveillance Annual Report
• 2017 HIV Surveillance Annual Report
• 2016 HIV Surveillance Annual Report
• 2015 HIV Surveillance Annual Report
• 2014 HIV Surveillance Annual Report 

Data Requests

• Electronic Data Request
• Alabama HIV-STD Data Release Policy
• HIV Security and Confidentiality Policy, 2024

STD/HIV REPORT Card

Physicians, dentists, nurses, medical examiners, hospital administrators, nursing home administrators, lab directors, school principals, and day care directors are responsible for reporting Notifiable Diseases in Alabama. The Alabama Notifiable Diseases Rules, Chapter 420-4-1, specifies the diseases and conditions requiring notification, and the time frame and methods for notification. To report a case of HIV (including symptomatic infection, AIDS, CD4 counts and viral load), please use the Communicable Disease REPORT Card.

HIV Integrated Epidemiological Profile

The Alabama Department of Public Health has monitored the HIV epidemic within Alabama since the early 1980s. Information about the current HIV epidemic is now available in the Integrated Epidemiological Profile.

• 2018
• 2011

Archived Reports

Visit Archived Statistics to see quarterly reports and other special reports from previous years.