HIV Sentinel Surveillance and HIV Estimation in India 2007: A Technical Brief

HIV Sentinel Surveillance is an annual exercise conducted to monitor the trends and levels of HIV epidemic among different population groups in the country. It is implemented with the support of two national institutes and five regional public health institutes of India. The methodology adopted is Consecutive Sampling at the service facilities and Unlinked Anonymous Testing after removing all the identifiers.

HIV Sentinel Surveillance 2007 was conducted at 1134 sentinel sites – 646 sites among the general population and 488 sites among the high-risk group population (FSW, MSM, IDU, migrants, and truckers). A total of 3,58,797 samples were tested during HIV Sentinel Surveillance 2007.