{"id":10358,"date":"2014-12-19T13:02:06","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T13:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=10358"},"modified":"2015-05-07T11:26:28","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T11:26:28","slug":"how-many-people-in-the-uk-were-diagnosed-late-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/10358","title":{"rendered":"How many people in the UK were diagnosed late last year?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Public Health England published a HIV in the UK report in November 2014. It contains figues relating to HIV in the UK up to December 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Late diagnosis means having a CD4 count below 350 within three months of diagnosis. 350 is the the CD4 count at which UK guidelines recommend starting treatment.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013 2,500 (42%) adults (aged 15+) were diagnosed late. 1,430 (24%) were severely immunocompromised. This means they had a CD4 count below 200. Below a CD4 count of 200 your risk of getting serious illnesses like pneumonia increases.<\/p>\n<p>The smallest proportion of people diagnosed late was in men who have sex with men (MSM) at 31%. The highest was among heterosexual men and women. This is was almost two thirds of men (62%) and just over half of women (51%).<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/377194\/2014_PHE_HIV_annual_report_19_11_2014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">full report<\/a> is available online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does late diagnosis mean? How many people were diagnosed late in the UK in 2013?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}