Monitoring selected national HIV prevention and care objectives by using HIV surveillance data : United States and 6 dependent areas, 2018

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) collects data to monitor progress toward achieving national goals [1, 2] and the objectives set forth in other federal directives, including the updated strategic plan [3] of the Division of HIV/AIDS Pre- vention (DHAP). This surveillance supplemental report complements the 2018 HIV Surveillance Report (Updated) [4] and presents the results of focused anal- yses of National HIV Surveillance System (NHSS) [5] data to measure progress toward achieving national goals [1]. Data in this report are also used to assess Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) core indicators [6, 7] and to monitor progress toward attainment of HIV-related national objectives in Healthy People 2020 and the Ending the HIV Epi- demic: A Plan for America (EHE) initiative [8, 9]. See Tables 11 and 12 for summaries of indicators for the National HIV/AIDS Strategy 2020 and EHE.The 2018 report includes data reported to CDC\u2019s NHSS through December 31, 2019. The use of data reported to CDC through December 2019 allows for a 12-month reporting delay and assessment of trends through the most recent diagnosis, death, and prevalence year (2018). Death data for the year 2018 are preliminary.Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Monitoring selected national HIV prevention and care objectives by using HIV surveillance data\u2014United States and 6 dependent areas, 2018. HIV Surveillance Supplemental Report 2020;25(No. 2). http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/library/reports/ hiv-surveillance.html. Published May 2020. Accessed [date].cdc-hiv-surveillance-supplemental-report-vol-25-2.pdf2020787