HIV infection

HIV infection is listed in the payload as a viral disease entity with the English name “HIV infection” and the Chinese name “人类免疫缺乏病毒感染,” and it is associated with ICD-10 B20–B24 and ICD-11 1C62 ^[1]. The available source material does not provide a disease primer, etiologic description, or natural-history summary beyond this identity-level metadata, so source-backed definitional detail is not yet available ^[1][5][6].

The source set supplied for this record does not describe the syndrome, symptom pattern, complications, stage-specific manifestations, or severity course of HIV infection. Although one guideline source mentions “persons with HIV infection” in the context of hepatitis C testing within sexually transmitted disease guidance, that passage does not characterize HIV clinical features themselves ^[4]. Source-backed clinical-feature detail is therefore not yet available ^[4][1].

The retrieved materials do not provide geographic distribution, incidence, outbreak context, reservoir information, or surveillance burden for HIV infection. The only epidemiologically adjacent content in the set is a sexually transmitted disease guideline that notes annual hepatitis C testing in persons with HIV infection, but this does not supply HIV-specific burden estimates or distributional data ^[4]. No source-backed epidemiologic profile can be stated beyond the disease identity metadata ^[1][4].

The provided snippets do not state how HIV infection is transmitted, what exposures are relevant, or whether any particular route predominates. Because the evidence boundary here contains only disease metadata and unrelated guideline references, source-backed transmission detail is not yet available ^[1][4].

The payload does not supply a source-backed list of high-risk groups for HIV infection. The only directly relevant population phrase in the sources is “persons with HIV infection” within a general STD guideline, which is not a risk-group statement for acquisition or progression ^[4]. Source-backed risk-group detail is therefore not yet available ^[4][1].

No source in the payload provides HIV-specific prevention, exposure-control, or public-health intervention detail. The sexually transmitted disease guideline included in the set is a general prevention-and-treatment reference for STDs and mentions persons with HIV infection only in relation to hepatitis C testing, which is not sufficient to infer HIV prevention measures ^[4]. Source-backed prevention detail for HIV infection is therefore not yet available ^[4].

For surveillance purposes, this record should be interpreted as a coded HIV infection concept rather than a fully described clinical profile ^[1]. The present source set supports naming and classification, but not syndrome definition, transmission ecology, or burden interpretation, so those elements should not be inferred from the available material ^[1][4].

1. 1 HIV infection. Nature Reviews Disease Primers. 2015. doi: 10.1038/nrdp.2015.60. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nrdp.2015.60
2. 2 Daley CL et al. Treatment of nontuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease: an official ATS/ERS/ESCMID/IDSA clinical practice guideline. Eur Respir J. 2020 Jul. PMID: 32636299. doi: 10.1183/13993003.00535-2020. PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32636299/
3. 3 Daley CL et al. Treatment of Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Pulmonary Disease: An Official ATS/ERS/ESCMID/IDSA Clinical Practice Guideline. Clin Infect Dis. 2020 Aug 14. PMID: 32628747. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa241. PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32628747/
4. 4 Workowski KA et al. Sexually transmitted diseases treatment guidelines, 2015. MMWR Recomm Rep. 2015 Jun 5. PMID: 26042815. PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26042815/
5. 5 HIV Infection. Mayo Clinic Internal Medicine Concise Textbook. 2007. doi: 10.1201/b14442-17. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1201/b14442-17
6. 6 HIV INFECTION. Key Topics in Otolaryngology. 2000. doi: 10.3109/9780203450413-40. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3109/9780203450413-40

ICD-10

B20-B24

ICD-11

1C62

Total cases

6K

Peak month

2013-06

Coverage

1 reporting countries · 2013-01-01 → 2026-02-01