HIV: the official record only

2011 – 2013

Printed as the official record frames it, and no further: HIV in this addendum stands solely in the published counts of the St. Joseph County Department of Health, from its 2013 Annual Report's clinic tables. The department's accounting of county residents living with HIV gives 528 in 2011 and 553 in 2012; the 2013 figure is marked in the report itself "not previously reported," and it is carried here in the report's own words rather than supplied. New positives found through the department's own clinic: fewer than 35 in 2011 (the report's suppressed aggregation, printed as the report prints it), 4 in 2012, and 0 in 2013. Other county providers found 31 new positives in 2012 and 20 in 2013. The clinic that did the finding saw 522 visits in 2011, 518 in 2012 and 411 in 2013; the same tables count the county's chlamydia at 1,243, 1,079 and 923 across those years, gonorrhea at 288, 314 and 230, and syphilis at fewer than 20, then 5, then 6. In fiscal 2013 the state eliminated the county's STD grant — the fiscal frame inside which the county's HIV work was then carried. That is the record at the size the county published it.

What is not printed, by rule: no individual case, no name, no neighborhood, no story stands in this article, because the official record carries none and this branch takes HIV from that record only. The onward official series is named without a figure taken from it: the Indiana Department of Health's Spotlight on HIV/STD/Viral Hepatitis, which counts persons living with HIV by last known county of residence, is where the county's series continues for any later pass. Mishawaka's share of the county's counts is not separately published in the record reached, and none is estimated: the county frame is the finest frame the official record gives, and the article stays inside it.

Sources

1. St. Joseph County Department of Health, 2013 Annual Report, STD clinic table — residents living with HIV: 528 (2011), 553 (2012), 2013 "not previously reported"; clinic new positives <35 (2011), 4 (2012), 0 (2013); other providers 31 (2012), 20 (2013); clinic visits 522/518/411; chlamydia 1,243/1,079/923; gonorrhea 288/314/230; syphilis <20/5/6; the FY2013 elimination of the state STD grant.
2. Indiana Department of Health, Spotlight on HIV/STD/Viral Hepatitis — the onward series, named only.