HIV Surveillance Reports

HIV Data Dashboard

This interactive tool contains state, regional and county level data on persons newly diagnosed with HIV, persons living with diagnosed HIV and deaths among persons with diagnosed HIV.

Using this tool

Please select the region, year of interest, number of persons and/or rates if desired. For exact number of persons or rates, please hover your cursor over an image.

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Glossary

Cisgender: All persons whose sex assigned at birth is the same as their current gender.

Concurrent Stage 3 HIV (AIDS) diagnosis: Any HIV diagnosis that occurs 12 months or less before an individual is diagnosed as Stage 3 HIV (AIDS).

Date of diagnosis: The date of diagnoses refers to the date a laboratory makes a diagnosis based on the analysis of a specimen.

HIV case: All individuals who have been diagnosed with HIV. Cases can be sub-classified into either HIV cases or stage 3 HIV (AIDS) cases.

Perinatal exposure: Exposure of a child to HIV from an HIV-infected mother during pregnancy, labor, or breastfeeding (through breast milk).   

Rate: The frequency of a defined event in a specified population for a given time period, usually expressed as the number of cases per 100,000 people in a population. The rate is calculated by dividing the number of cases in the population of interest by the total number of people in the population. Then multiply by 100,000 to get the rate per 100,000 people.

HIV Stages 0-2:  This refers to an individual who has been infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that is in the early stages of the disease process and has not met the case definition for stage 3 (AIDS). Click here to learn more about HIV stages.

HIV Stage 3 (AIDS):  This refers to an individual who has been infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that is in the later stages of the disease process and has met the case definition for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Click here to learn more about HIV stages.

Transgender: Adjective describing persons whose gender is different that the sex they were assigned at birth. Transgender persons may be men or women, but for the purpose of this report, transgender individuals are categorized separately from non-transgender (or cisgender) men and women.

Abbreviations

AIDS: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

CDC: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

eHARS: enhanced HIV/AIDS Reporting System

HIV: Human Immunodeficiency Virus

IDU: Injection Drug Use

MMS: Male-to-Male Sex

MMS + IDU: Male-to-Male Sex and Injection Drug Use

Additional Resources

HIV Epidemiological Profile

Tennessee HIV Epidemiological Profile 2021