Request for Question Clarification by
hummer-ga
on
21 Apr 2006 10:22 PDT
Hi pop10,
After working on your question for a couple of days, I now believe it
would take a minimum of a week, probably longer, to answer fully all
that you require. I would like to propose that you split your one
question up into three separate questions (Herpes [you may want to
exclude this one, given that it is "unreportable", see below],
Hepatits, and AIDS/HIV), to better the chances of receiving answers.
I have found that Herpes is not a "reportable" condition and therefore
only estimates of the number of people living with Herpes are
available. Also, according to the Center for Disease Control, "there
are no significant differences in prevalence by geographic location".
San Fransisco
How many people have it?
"About 50 to 80% of the adult population in the United States have
oral herpes. About one in five adults in the United States has genital
herpes; however, as many as 90% of these infected people don't know
they have the virus. There are no accurate numbers as to how many
people in San Francisco have herpes as it is not a reportable STD."
http://www.dph.sf.ca.us/sfcityclinic/stdbasics/herpes.asp
TRACKING THE HIDDEN EPIDEMICS 2000
Trends in STDs in the United States
A Closer Look at Herpes
"Herpes is common in all regions of the country and in both urban and
rural areas. There are no significant differences in prevalence by
geographic location."
http://www.cdc.gov/nchstp/od/news/RevBrochure1pdfcloselookHerpes.htm
Genital herpes in North America (Extrapolated Statistics)
USA 72,334,235
http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/g/genital_herpes/stats-country.htm
* Genital Warts
Detailed national data by city and state are only available for
nationally notifiable STDs."
http://www.cdc.gov/nchstp/od/news/RevBrochure1pdfstatus.htm
AIDS has been reportable for some time but HIV has been reportable for
just a few years in most states (it only became reportable in
California in 2002), therefore the data available on HIV isn't as
extensive as it is for AIDS.
California
AIDS/HIV STATISTICS REQUEST REPORT FORM
"Please Note: Since HIV infection only became reportable in July of
2002, non-AIDS HIV data will not be available until such data are more
complete and accurate; therefore requests for information on persons
with HIV who do not have AIDS cannot be processed at this time."
http://lapublichealth.org/phcommon/public/hiv/hivaddform.cfm?ou=ph&unit=hiv&prog=hae
I have narrowed my research to AIDS (and HIV where available) and
hopefully will be able to post my answer some time this weekend, here
is a sample of what I have found so far (San Fransisco). If all of the
cities provided such nice data my task would be alot easier, but as
you probably know, most do not. I have been assuming that you need the
"number of persons living with AIDS" rather than the "number of new
cases reported each year". Please correct me if I'm making the wrong
assumption.
1) SAN FRANSISCO
Number of Persons Living with AIDS:
2000: 7821
2001: 8002
2002: 8165
2003: 8381
2004: 8579
2005: 8673
2006: 8648
[click link for numbers dating back to 1980]
QUARTERLY AIDS SURVEILLANCE REPORT
San Francisco Department of Public Health
Table 9. AIDS Incidence, Mortality, and Prevalence by Year, San
Francisco, 1980-2006
http://www.dph.sf.ca.us/PHP/RptsHIVAIDS/qrpt032006.pdf
If you take my recommendation and expire this question and post new
ones, please put in the subject line, "For Hummer-ga, AIDS/HIV" and I
will be happy to continue working on this for you. Also, please let me
know if the San Fransisco data is what you are looking for.
Regards,
hummer
