Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will place in the Library data on the change in the number of patients with HIV living in England since 1985.

Public Health England (and its predecessors) have monitored new human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) diagnoses and deaths in the United Kingdom since the beginning of the HIV epidemic in the early 1980s.

The following table summarises the changing numbers of patients newly diagnosed with HIV, the number of deaths occurring among people with HIV and the changing number of people accessing HIV care (i.e. living with diagnosed prevalent HIV infections) in the UK from 1980-2012.

Data for 2013 will be available from mid-October 2014.

*Estimated before 2000.

Notes:

(A) New cases of HIV diagnoses are reported centrally from clinicians and laboratories.

(B) Death reports are collated from clinicians and supplemented with reports from the Office for National Statistics. Deaths include HIV and non-HIV related mortality.

(C) Patients diagnosed with HIV are seen for care and treatment at a network of free accessible HIV outpatient services. Access to, and retention in, HIV is extremely high; consequently these data correspond to diagnosed prevalence i.e. the number of people living with a diagnosed HIV infection. The number of patients newly diagnosed and the number of deaths each year will not directly correspond to diagnosed prevalence; this is due to migration patterns and a small subset of patients (<3%) who do not attend care after diagnosis.