By State regulation, HIV infection has become a reportable condition in California. This requires laboratories, health care providers, and counseling and testing providers to report all cases of HIV infection to their local health department. This new reporting requirement is necessary both to better monitor the epidemic and because future funding for local AIDS treatment and HIV prevention services will soon be allocated according to the number of HIV cases reported.
This HIV surveillance activity begins on July 1, 2002. Unlike AIDS case reporting, HIV case reports and laboratory notifications do not include personal-identifying information. Health care providers and laboratories instead use a non-name code that consists of 4 components: Soundex (an algorithm to convert a surname to an alphanumeric code), an 8-digit date of birth, a 1-digit code for gender, and the last 4 digits of the social security number (SSN). Health care providers are responsible for providing the client's surname, date of birth, and gender when submitting laboratory requisitions for any test used to identify HIV, a component of HIV, or antibodies or antigens to HIV.
The following documents can be downloaded for HIV reporting. If you would like to report an HIV case or have any questions retrieving these files, please call the HIV Reporting Help Desk at (213) 351-8516.
HIV Report Training Materials
Forms/Instructions
For Providers
For Laboratories
Soundex Softwares (Download)
HIV Reporting Regulations
Posters
Contact Numbers
- Los Angeles County Department of Health Services HIV Epidemiology Program-HIV/AIDS Reporting Help Desk: (213)351-8516.
- City of Long Beach Department of Health & Human Services: (562)570-4311
- City of Pasadena Public Health Department: (626)744-6151 or (626)744-6027
- Pediatric Spectrum of Disease (PSD): (213)250-8666
- California State Office of AIDS: (916)445-0553
