§ Sir Teddy TaylorTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on the incidence of HIV/AIDS in the UK; and what change there has been in the incidence in the last 10 years.[141328]
§ Miss Melanie JohnsonThe numbers of new diagnoses of HIV infection reported in the UK for the last 10 years are shown in the table. These are a mixture of new (incident) cases and new diagnoses of longer-standing infections.
Year of diagnosis Number of HIV infected individuals1 1993 2,621 1994 2,574 1995 2,653 1996 2,692 1997 2,737 1998 2,818 1999 3,072 2000 3,825 2001 4,982 2002 5,711 1Numbers, particularly for recent years, will rise as further reports are received.
Source: Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre, Health Protection Agency, data to the end of September 2003.