HIV data: Injecting Drug Users 2009

Injecting drug users (IDUs) are vulnerable to HIV through the sharing of injecting equipment, as well as through sexual transmission. Transmission of HIV through injecting drug use was recognised early on in the HIV epidemic, at the beginning of the 1980s. Other than an outbreak in Edinburgh in the early 1980s, HIV infection among IDUs has remained relatively uncommon in the UK, with around one in 75 IDUs currently infected with HIV. Higher levels of HIV infection among IDUs have been reported in London, and surveillance data suggest that there have been raised levels of HIV transmission among IDUs in recent years.

For more information regarding surveillance of infectious diseases and behaviour in injecting drug users, please visit the IDUs main page

HIV data: Injecting Drug Users 2009

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