Initiating Second Generation HIV Surveillance Systems: Practical Guidelines

This report presents guidelines to assist national AIDS programs and ministries of health in implementing second generation surveillance systems to monitor HIV. The monograph discusses the role of second generation surveillance in a National Strategic plan and the assessment of HIV, sexually transmitted infections, and current behavioral surveillance systems in order to find the gaps and design a new system to fill those gaps. The report lists the main elements of a national surveillance plan, and discusses preparing the surveillance protocols, implementation, and evaluation of second generation surveillance systems.