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UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE STATISTICS GROUP SEMINAR SERIES Sponsored by Department of Economics, Statistics and Decision Sciences, Business School, University of Hertfordshire. Wednesday 10th February 1999, 1pm, Hatfield Campus, Room LB400 Pauline Rogers (Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre, Public Health Laboratory Service) Title: "Survival from AIDS diagnosis in UK Adults" Abstract: "Diagnoses and deaths of HIV and AIDS are reported to the PHLS HIV&STD Centre on a voluntary confidential basis. The vital status of these cases is updated annually from ONS death reports, the PHLS survey of prevalent diagnosed HIV infections, and the PHLS and Scottish surveys of laboratory reports of CD4 counts. Periodically AIDS cases not known to be dead are actively followed up with the reporting centres to ascertain the current last known alive date or dates of death which have not been reported previously. There are separate surveys for England & Wales and Scotland - the most recent surveys were undertaken between October 1997 and March 1998. "Data is currently available on 14103 adult AIDS cases diagnosed by the end of 1996 and reported by the end of June 1998. "The results from fitting proportional hazards models to some of this data will be reported and the problems encountered in analysing this data at a time of rapid changes in the epidemiology of HIV and AIDS in the UK will be discussed." Wednesday 17th March 1999, 1pm, Hertford Campus, Room M1 Clare Morris (University of Hertfordshire) Title and Abstract to follow. For further information regarding location, parking, etc., please contact Neil Spencer (details below) ************************************** Dr Neil H Spencer, Senior Lecturer in Statistics, Department of Economics, Statistics and Decision Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, Hertford Campus, Mangrove Road, Hertford, SG13 8QF, ENGLAND. Telephone: +44 1707 285529 Fax: +44 1707 285489 E-mail: [log in to unmask] ************************************** %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%