New approaches to HIV surveillance: means and ends: summary report of conference held at Yale University, 21-22 May 1998, by the Law, Policy and Ethics Core, center for interdisciplinary research on Aids, Yale University

This article discusses the challenges of designing a new, efficient AIDS surveillance system to monitor the epidemic in the United States. The authors examine several alternatives, such as name-reporting systems, systems of case reports based upon unique identifiers, and a model which provides incidence data bases upon 'snapshot estimates.'