Does this error affect the raw data submitted by health departments to CDC?
No. The error affects only estimated AIDS cases. Data on reported HIV and AIDS cases (i.e., the raw data reported to CDC by state health departments) were unaffected. Where have the incorrectly weighted data been distributed and published? Some analyses of national HIV/AIDS surveillance data published since November 2006 have been based on the incorrectly weighted data. These include the portions of the 2005 HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report that include estimated AIDS cases and estimated HIV/AIDS cases (given that a subset of new HIV diagnoses include a concurrent AIDS diagnosis). The error affects the cover, Tables 1-6 and 8-12, Maps 1 and 2, Figure 1, and the commentary pages in the 2005 HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report. In addition some Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) articles, fact sheets, slide sets, materials posted to the Kaiser Family Foundation Web site (www.statehealthfacts.org) and other sites, as well as conference abstracts, and unpublished analyses are also affected.
