title: HIV disease surveillance: medicine and public health working together.
abstract: Public health surveillance is critical to the management of the HIV epidemic. Surveillance helps to define changing trends, formulate and strategically implement preventive initiatives, and evaluate the effectiveness of interventions. Collaboration between clinical medicine and public health is essential to reliable surveillance.
authors.affiliation: Division of AIDS Prevention and Control, New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, USA.
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Paul
authors.forename: V S
authors.initials: VS
authors.lastname: Jorden
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Grasso
authors.forename: S J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Costa
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000191:economics / Q000453:epidemiology*; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000191:economics / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009515:New Jersey; D011159:Population Surveillance / Q000379:methods