Earl Baldwin of Bewdleyasked Her Majesty's Government:
How many people diagnosed as suffering from AIDS have survived for 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 years or more respectively; and what proportion of patients in each category have been constant long-term takers of anti-viral drugs.
§ Baroness Jay of Paddington13,632 United Kingdom adult AIDS cases diagnosed by 31 December 1996 had been reported to the Public Health Laboratory Service Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre by 31 March 1997 and from data available on 30 June 1997 the number of AIDS cases surviving three years or more was:
Years survived after AIDS diagnosis Number of cases Number not known to be dead on 31 December 1996 3 or more 1,610 931 4 or more 763 410 5 or more 366 125 6 or more 186 55 7 or more 107 24 8 or more 58 13 9 or more 27 7 10 or more 12 6 AIDS cases statistics are subject to under-reporting and reporting delays and can change over time.
The choice of treatment regimens for HIV and AIDS patients is a matter for discussion between the patient and clinician. Records of individual's treatments are confidential and it is therefore not possible to answer the second part of the question.