Military Health System

This report summarizes the numbers, types and incidence rates of mental health disorder diagnoses among U.S. active component service members over a five-year surveillance period.

This annual update summarizes numbers and trends of new HIV antibody seropositivity among U.S. active and reserve component service members, in addition to National Guard members.

This report describes the incidence of gonorrhea and chlamydia in male Air Force basic trainees and compares follow up testing and clinical outcomes with female basic trainees.

Department of Defense Instruction 1010.04, “Problematic Substance Use and Gambling Disorder,” provides a holistic approach to identify, treat, and prevent problematic substance use and gambling disorder.

This analysis measures the association of traumatic brain injury with medical readiness for active duty military service, which could inform future traumatic brain injury screening, referral, and patient management protocols.

This report summarizes the numbers, types, and rates of incident mental health disorder diagnoses among U.S. active component service members over a 5-year surveillance period, from 2019 through 2023, during which a total of 541,672 service members were diagnosed with at least one mental health disorder.

This annual report summarizes numbers and trends of newly identified HIV-antibody seropositivity, from January 1, 2019 through June 30, 2024, among military members of five services under the active and reserve components of the U.S. Armed Forces, in addition to the Army and Air Force National Guard.

This guest editorial presents a policy analysis that suggests HIV PrEP coverage in the Military Health System remains suboptimal, and evaluates several available interventions could result in substantial increases in PrEP coverage that could further reduce new service member HIV infections and increase medical readiness.

This report establishes that malaria rates among regionally-deployed Australian military personnel remain relatively low following high rates in the early 2000s.

Public health preparedness and response is a critical area of focus as Defense Public Health transitions some of the military component public health functions to the Defense Health Agency. This includes all-hazard biosurveillance and public health emergency management, or PHEM.

This Surveillance Snapshot presents a comparison of U.S. active component military and general population HIV incidence rates in 2021, the most recent year for which stratified U.S. data were available, using indirect standardization by sex, age, and race and ethnicity.

This study provides the first estimate of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis coverage in the U.S. military, defined as the proportion of the persons taking HIV PrEP out of the estimated number of persons who had indications for it, that is also comparable to U.S. civilian estimates. The population with indications for HIV PrEP was obtained from the ...

Mental health access and stigma reduction were a major theme for 2023 in the Military Health System: The Year in Review.

A new Department of Defense policy recognizes the private nature of mental health care and is part of a larger DOD effort to reduce the stigma that is often associated with seeking help for mental health.