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 

Tables and graphs

• Accessing HIV care: Injecting Drug Users 2010 (PDF, 148 KB)
• Accessing HIV care: Injecting Drug Users 2010 (Excel Spreadsheet, 362 KB)
• New HIV Diagnoses: Injecting Drug Users 2011 Part 2 (PDF, 154 KB)
• Data tables - Unlinked Anonymous Monitoring Survey of Injecting Drug Users, July 2010

Other useful links

Accessing HIV care homepage
Unlinked Anonymous Survey of Injecting Drug Users home page
HIV and STIs 2005 - 2012 Reports