§ Mr. CoxTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what is the number of(a) men and (b) women who have been diagnosed as having the HIV virus in the Greater London area as of 18 February.
§ Mrs. Virginia BottomleyData on residence are not available on the HIV-1 infection reports received at the Public Health Laboratory Service AIDS centre of the communicable disease surveillance centre (CDSC). The region where the test took place may not be a good indicator of the region of residence of the individual tested.
Within the four Thames regions 10,282 reports of HIV-1 infected people have been received at CDSC—9,277 men, 949 women and 56 where the sex was not stated on the report form. These data are cumulative from when testing began in late 1984 to the end of December 1991, and is for adults only.