Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)

Reporting

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

A 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 jiroveci 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.

* Australian National Council on AIDS 1994. 'Definition of HIV infection and AIDS-defining illnesses' ANCA Bulletin, vol. 18, Canberra.