Improving HIV Surveillance Data for Public Health Action in Washington, DC: A Novel Multiorganizational Data-Sharing Method.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The National HIV/AIDS Strategy calls for active surveillance programs for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to more accurately measure access to and retention in care across the HIV care continuum for persons living with HIV within their jurisdictions and to identify persons who may need public health services. However, traditional public health surveillance methods face substantial technological and privacy-related barriers to data sharing.

Objective

This study developed a novel data-sharing approach to improve the timeliness and quality of HIV surveillance data in three jurisdictions where persons may often travel across the borders of the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia.

Methods

A deterministic algorithm of approximately 1000 lines was deve

SUBMITTER: Ocampo JMF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4869245 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan-Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature