Estimating HIV incidence using HIV case surveillance

Overview

The 2-day meeting was dedicated to discussion of how to estimate HIV incidence using case reporting, and the methods used in some countries to achieve this. Expected outcomes were to:

• share progress on application of HIV incidence assays on HIV case reporting in different countries, and other methods such as CD4 count and back calculation; and
• provide a matrix of methods that can be used for HIV incidence estimation, with the parameters needed and the conditions under which to use such methods in countries with HIV case-reporting systems.