HIV/AIDS: Field Surveillance Program

The Field Surveillance Program was created to enhance the national surveillance of HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), emerging retroviruses and other blood-borne sexually transmitted pathogens.

Field surveillance officers across Canada support provincial/territorial Ministries of Health and staff in Ottawa to develop and maintain national surveillance databases, to publish reports from these data and to enhance HIV strain and drug resistance surveillance.

Specifically, field surveillance activities from the Public Health Agency of Canada, provinces and territories include:

• Coordination of shipment of HIV specimens and epidemiologic data to the national centre;
• Technical support for data collection and enhancement;
• Support for provincial surveillance activities;
• Monthly submission of sexually transmitted infection data

For more information, email the Field Surveillance Program.