2008 statistics

83,000 people are living with HIV (both diagnosed and undiagnosed)
21,170 people (27%) are undiagnosed

New HIV diagnoses in 2008

7,298 new diagnoses in 2008

4,614 men diagnosed
2,684 women diagnosed

4,220 acquired heterosexually
2,760 acquired homosexually
170 acquired through injecting drug use
110 acquired through mother-to-child transmission

27% of total heterosexual new diagnoses where acquired within the UK
83% of total gay and bisexual men new diagnoses acquired within the UK

Late diagnosis in 2008

32% of people diagnosed in 2008 where diagnosed late with a CD4 cell count of less than 200 per mm3.

New guidelines recommend treatment should be considered when CD4 cell count is less than 350mm3.  Based on this recommendation 55% of people diagnosed in 2008 were diagnosed late.

Of the 525 people with HIV who died in 2008, 57% had been diagnosed late with a CD4 cell count <200.

People accessing HIV care
61,123 (40,146 men; 21,067 women) people diagnosed with HIV are accessing care
44% (26,906) of people accessing HIV care in 2008 were resident in London

75% of those seen for care are on anti-retroviral therapy (ARVs)
79% of those with a CD4 cell count of <350 mm3 are on ARVs

Recently acquired HIV infection
Preliminary results for 2009 suggest one in five MSM likely to have been infected in the previous six months (compared with one in ten heterosexuals).

This statistics are taken from Health Protection Agency ‘HIV in the United Kingdom: 2009 Report’.  The HPA 2009 report provides data on HIV in the UK up to the end of 2008.

NAT is in the process of updating our detailed statistics pages which will be available again shortly.