Question

How many people in the UK got diagnosed last year?

19 December 2014. Related: All topics.

How many people in the UK got diagnosed with HIV in 2013?

Answer

Answer: Robin Jakob

Public Health England published a HIV in the United Kingdom report in November 2014. It contains figures relating to HIV in the UK up to December 2013.

6,000 people were newly diagnosed with HIV in 2013. New diagnosis have been going down since a peak in 2005.

3,250 of these diagnoses, 54%, were among men who have sex with men (MSM).

130 of these diagnoses happened through injecting drug use.

90 diagnoses involved mother-to-child transmission. The vast majority of these cases were with mothers who had gotten HIV abroad.

The full report is available online.