{"id":5943,"date":"2021-06-01T12:00:26","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T12:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/?page_id=5943"},"modified":"2021-06-17T07:26:02","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T07:26:02","slug":"hiv-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/testing\/hiv-in-the-uk","title":{"rendered":"HIV in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5989 alignright\" title=\"Quote - time\" src=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/files\/2011\/12\/Quote-time-150x149.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"214\" \/>More than 105,000 people in the UK are HIV positive. Of these, about 6,600 (6%) have not been diagnosed.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Over 98% of people who are diagnosed are on treatment which makes HIV difficult to transmit.<\/li>\n<li><i><\/i>1.5 million people take an HIV test each year. Half are in a sexual health setting and half in pregnancy screening. More than 99% of all results are negative.<\/li>\n<li>Roughly 4,130 people tested positive in 2019. This is less than 0.5% of all tests. Half were heterosexual and half were gay men.<\/li>\n<li>Roughly 40% were diagnosed late. This is defined by having a CD4 count less than 350 cell\/mm<sup>3<\/sup>. These people are likely to have been HIV positive for at least 3 to 5 years.<\/li>\n<li>Late diagnosis causes half of all HIV-related deaths. These could be prevented with earlier testing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Reference<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Estimates based on HIV in the UK, PHE December 2019 report.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/statistics\/hiv-in-the-united-kingdom\">https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/statistics\/hiv-in-the-united-kingdom<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 105,000 people in the UK are HIV positive. Of these, about 6,600 (6%) have not been diagnosed. Over 98% of people who are diagnosed are on treatment which makes HIV difficult to transmit. 1.5 million people take an &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":5467,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-guides.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5943","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5943\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}