World Aids Day

Published: 30 November 2012

World AIDS Day is on Saturday 1^st December 2012.
 
According to latest Health Protection Agency (HPA) figures there were 6,280 new HIV diagnoses in 2011, taking the total number of people living with HIV in the UK to around 96,000. Publishing in National HIV Testing Week, the data show although late HIV diagnoses dropped slightly in 2011 (47 per cent, from 50 per cent in 2010), a quarter of people with HIV remained unaware of their status.

The ‘HIV in the UK’ report also found: 

New diagnoses among men who have sex with men (MSM) reached an all-time high in 2011 (3,010) – nearly one in MSM in London and one in 20 in the UK now has HIV (47 per 1,000)

The black African community also remained at higher HIV risk in 2011 with 37 per 1,000 living with the infection.

Nearly half of all new diagnoses were acquired heterosexually (2,990; 48 per cent). Of these, over half were probably acquired in the UK in 2011, compared to only 27 per cent in 2002.

The small decline in the total new diagnoses (from 6400 in 2010 to 6,280 in 2011) was driven by a reduction in diagnoses among people born outside the UK.

Overall HIV prevalence in the UK was 1.5 per 1,000 population

The report can be read in full here

For more information on HIV and to view the latest statistics on HIV please go to The Health Protection Agency  and The Terrence Higgins Trust