Infectious Diseases

HIV/AIDS Mid-Year Surveillance Report - 2020

This annual surveillance report summarizes information about HIV infections diagnosed in New Mexico by the end of calendar 2019 and analyzed at the end of 2020.

HIV Infection and AIDS among Adults and Adolescents, New Mexico 2019.

This annual surveillance report summarizes information about HIV infections diagnosed in New Mexico by the end of calendar 2018 and analyzed at the end of 2019.

The 2014 HIV Surveillance Report includes data for adults and adolescents (aged 13 years and older at diagnosis) diagnosed with HIV infection in New Mexico, and/or living with HIV in New Mexico, through year-end 2013 based on reports of HIV infection submitted to the Program prior to Jan 1, 2015.

The 2014 HIV Surveillance Report includes data for adults and adolescents (aged 13 years and older at diagnosis) diagnosed with HIV infection in New Mexico, and/or living with HIV in New Mexico, through year-end 2013 based on reports of HIV infection submitted to the Program prior to Jan 1, 2015.

HIV Infection and AIDS among Adults and Adolescents, New Mexico 2016.

HIV Infection and AIDS among Adults and Adolescents, New Mexico 2015.

The 2014 HIV Surveillance Report includes data for adults and adolescents (aged 13 years and older at diagnosis) diagnosed with HIV infection in New Mexico, and/or living with HIV in New Mexico, through year-end 2013 based on reports of HIV infection submitted to the Program prior to Jan 1, 2015.

HIV Infection and AIDS among Adults and Adolescents, New Mexico 2014.

The 2013 HIV Surveillance Report includes data for adults and adolescents (aged 13 years and older at diagnosis) diagnosed with HIV infection in New Mexico, and/or living with HIV in New Mexico, through year-end 2013 based on reports of HIV infection submitted to the Program prior to Jan 1, 2014.

HIV Infection and AIDS among Adults and Adolescents, New Mexico 2013.

The 2012 HIV Surveillance Report includes data for adults and adolescents (aged 13 years and older at diagnosis) diagnosed with HIV infection in New Mexico, and/or living with HIV in New Mexico, through year-end 2012 based on reports of HIV infection submitted to the Program prior to July 1, 2013.

HIV Infection and AIDS among Adults and Adolescents, New Mexico 2012.

The 2011 HIV Surveillance Report includes data for adults and adolescents (aged 13 years and older at diagnosis) diagnosed with HIV infection in New Mexico, and/or living with HIV in New Mexico, through year-end 2012 based on reports of HIV infection submitted to the Program prior to July 1, 2012.

Determining the most likely source of HIV infection is an essential function of HIV surveillance programs. Risk factors for HIV infection are used to monitor the emergence of new or unusual transmission routes, monitor trends in transmission, target risk reduction interventions to the most affected groups, evaluate HIV programs, and allocate HIV prevention resources.

The HIV/AIDS Epidemiology Program in New Mexico conducts confidential name-based HIV/AIDS reporting and subsequent epidemiological analyses. The HIV surveillance case definition includes a positive screening test result (e.g., reactive EIA) confirmed by a positive result from a supplemental HIV antibody test (e.g., Western Blot).

Since 1996 when the use of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) began, the natural history and progression of HIV has changed dramatically. The incidence of AIDS and deaths due to HIV has decreased considerably throughout the U.S., while the number of people able to live with HIV has continued to increase steadily.

Partner Services for sexually transmitted diseases (STD) has been a component of public health practice in the United States since the early 1900’s. It began as contact tracing in the 1940’s in an effort to control and reduce syphilis infections. After the HIV epidemic began, HIV partner notification was often combined with STD contact tracing or some HIV programs used methods previously only applied to STD.

Before the spread of disease can be stopped, we need to know where infections are occurring and who is being infected. Gathering this information in a systematic way is called surveillance. Confidential, name-based reporting of AIDS in New Mexico has been in place since 1981 and for HIV since 1998.

Since gay men opened the pages of the July 3, 1981, New York Times and read the headline, “Rare Cancer Seen in 41 Homosexuals,” gay and bisexual men and male-to-female transgenders have been disproportionally affected and stigmatized because of high rates of a then mysterious syndrome, now known as AIDS caused by HIV, but first called Gay Related Immune Deficiency.

According to the United States (US) Census Bureau’s intercensal estimate for 2006, 44% of New Mexico’s population reported Hispanic ethnicity. New Mexico also has the greatest proportion of Hispanics than any other state in the US.

Located in a high desert plain in the Southwest U.S., the Four Corners region – Arizona (AZ), Colorado (CO), New Mexico (NM), and Utah (UT) - is the only place in the country where four states touch. Three of the four corners are on the Navajo Reservation and the fourth, in Colorado, is on the Ute Mountain Reservation.