Fact sheets

HIV/AIDS web page

HIV/AIDS fact sheet (PDF 64.17KB)

Public Health action

• Guidelines for Managing Sexually Transmitted Infections. A guide for primary health care providers

• OD 0092/07 Policy for Health Care Workers with Blood-Borne Virus Infections

• OD 0091/07 Management of Occupational Exposure to Blood and Body Fluids in the Health Care Setting

 

• OD 0077/07 Protocol for Non-Occupational Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (NPEP) to Prevent HIV in Western Australia

 

• OD 0057/07 Provision of Sterile Needles and Syringes from Rural and Regional Hospitals to People Who Inject Drugs
  

• Code of Practice for Skin Penetration Procedures

• Communicable Disease Guidelines, for teachers, child care workers, local government authorities and medical practitioners. Department of Health, Western Australia

Additional sources of information

• Control of Communicable Diseases Manual

• WA epidemiology

Case definition

Only confirmed cases should be notified.

Confirmed case

A confirmed case requires laboratory definitive evidence AND clinical evidence.

Laboratory definitive evidence

Definitive diagnosis of HIV infection (see case definitions for human immunodeficiency virus).

Clinical evidence

diagnosis of at least one of the following clinical conditions:*

• Candidiasis of the bronchi, trachea or lungs - definitive diagnosis only

• Oesophageal candidiasis - definitive or presumptive diagnosis
  
• Invasive cervical cancer - definitive diagnosis
  
• Coccidioidomycosis, disseminated or extrapulmonary - definitive diagnosis only
  
• Cryptococcosis, extrapulmonary - definitive diagnosis only
  
• Cryptosporidiosis of more than one month's duration - definitive diagnosis only

• Cytomegalovirus retinitis, with loss of vision - definitive or presumptive diagnosis

• Encephalopathy, HIV related - definitive diagnosis only
  
• Herpes simplex: chronic ulcer(s) of more than one month's duration, bronchitis, pneumonitis or oesophagitis - definitive diagnosis only
  
• Histoplasmosis, disseminated or extrapulmonary - definitive diagnosis only
  
• Isosporiasis, chronic intestinal, of more than one month's duration - definitive diagnosis only
  
• Kaposi's sarcoma - definitive or presumptive diagnosis
  
• Lymphoma, Burkitt's - definitive diagnosis only
  
• Lymphoma, immunoblastic - definitive diagnosis only
  
• Lymphoma, primary, of brain - definitive diagnosis only
  
• Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex, any site, pulmonary or extrapulmonary - definitive or presumptive diagnosis
  
• Non-tuberculous mycobacterial disease, disseminated or extrapulmonary - definitive or presumptive diagnosis
  
• Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia - definitive or presumptive diagnosis
  
• Pneumonia, recurrent bacterial - definitive or presumptive
  
• Progressive multi-focal leukoencephalopathy - definitive diagnosis only
  
• Salmonella septicaemia, recurrent - definitive diagnosis only
  
• Toxoplasmosis - definitive or presumptive diagnosis
  
• Wasting syndrome due to HIV infection - definitive diagnosis only
  
• Bacterial infection affecting a child less than 13 year of age - definitive diagnosis only
  
• Lymphoid interstitial pneumonia and/or pulmonary lymphoid hyperplasia affecting a child less than 13 years of age - definitive or presumptive diagnosis