THE SUPPLEMENT TO HIV-AIDS SURVEILLANCE PROJECT - AN APPROACH FOR MONITORING HIV RISK BEHAVIORS

A VARIETY OF SURVEILLANCE METHODS are used to characterize the epidemi c of HIV infection and AIDS. Such surveillance includes AIDS case repo rting, reporting of diagnosed HIV infections, and HIV seroprevalence s urveys among targeted sentinel populations. The need for additional su rveillance systems to monitor HIV-related risk behaviors has been incr easingly evident. One approach to behavioral surveillance, the CDC's S upplement to HIV-AIDS Surveillance project, uses the infrastructure of HIV infection and AIDS case reporting to collect additional informati on on risk behaviors among HIV-infected persons, who by definition rep resent those at highest risk.