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HIV in the United Kingdom: 2008 report

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HPA

Publication date: November 2008

An estimated 77,400 people were living with HIV in the UK at the end of 2007, of whom over a quarter (28%) were unaware of their infection.
During 2007 there were 7734 new diagnoses of HIV, a similarly high figure to the diagnoses made in each of the previous four years.
New HIV diagnoses among men who have sex with men continue to increase and over four-fifths of these infections were probably acquired in the UK.
The estimated number of people infected through heterosexual contact within the UK has increased from 540 new diagnoses in 2003 to 960 in 2007, and has doubled, from 11% to 23%, as a proportion of all heterosexual diagnoses during this period.
Almost a third (31%) of persons newly diagnosed with HIV were diagnosed late, that is at a point after which therapy should have begun (CD4 cell count less than 200 per mm³).
Seventy percent of the 56,556 persons seen for HIV care were receiving anti-retroviral therapy. Almost one in five HIV-infected persons with severe immunosuppression, however, were not on treatment.
Uptake of HIV testing in genitourinary medicine and antenatal clinic settings reached 75% and 94%, respectively.

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