HIV Infection

(asked on 16th October 2024) - View Source
Questioner
Neil O'Brien Portrait
Neil O'Brien
(Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people living with diagnosed HIV infection there are whose country of birth was (a) in the UK and (b) not in the UK by region.

Answered by
Andrew Gwynne Portrait
Andrew Gwynne
This question was answered on 22nd October 2024

The following table shows the number of people diagnosed and seen for care in 2023 presented by region and by whether country of birth was the United Kingdom:

Region of residence

UK born

Born outside the UK

East Midlands

2,392

3,876

East of England

3,242

5,325

London

11,025

26,035

North East

1,480

817

North West

6,590

4,305

Scotland

3,112

1,820

South East

5,873

6,321

South West

3,420

2,359

Wales

723

241

West Midlands

3,666

4,683

Yorkshire and Humber

2,883

3,208

Source: UK Health Security Agency

Note: this excludes 4% people for whom we did not hold data for country of birth. Data for Northern Ireland was not reported in 2023. People born outside the UK includes people who acquired HIV after arriving in the UK.

HIV surveillance data in the UK by demographic characteristics and geographical region is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hiv-annual-data-tables

The latest update was published on 1 October 2024.

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