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**AIDS**

NCHS is one of the agencies responsible    for producing data on acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) to provide the knowledge    base for national research, education, prevention, and treatment programs. Working with    many Public Health Service agencies, NCHS fielded a nationwide survey of AIDS knowledge    and attitudes as part of its 1987 **National Health    Interview Survey (NHIS)**. The questionnaire has been periodically modified    since 1987 in response to new information needs. Data collection on knowledge and    attitudes will continue as part of the NHIS as long as the need exists to measure the    public's knowledge and to track progress in education efforts. 

Questions about AIDS and its causal    agent, the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), have been added to other NCHS surveys to    broaden the type and scope of data available. The **Third    National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey** included a test for HIV    infection as one of its many laboratory tests. The **National Hospital Discharge Survey**    has been reporting on hospitalization for AIDS since 1984. **AIDS    mortality data** are also produced monthly and annually through the national    vital statistics system since 1987 for the United States and individual States. The last    two rounds of the **National Survey of Family Growth**    also included special questions related to HIV/AIDS. 

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This page last reviewed February 02, 2000

**U.S.    DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES****Centers    for Disease Control and Prevention**    National Center for Health Statistics    Division of Data Services     Hyattsville, MD    20782-2003    (301) 458-4636
 

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