HIV/AIDS
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people living with diagnosed HIV infection there are whose country of birth was (a) in the UK and (b) not in the UK by region.
Answered by Andrew Gwynne
The following table shows the number of people diagnosed and seen for care in 2023 presented by region and by whether country of birth was the United Kingdom:
| Region of residence | UK born | Born outside the UK | |||
| East Midlands | 2,392 | 3,876 | |||
| East of England | 3,242 | 5,325 | |||
| London | 11,025 | 26,035 | |||
| North East | 1,480 | 817 | |||
| North West | 6,590 | 4,305 | |||
| Scotland | 3,112 | 1,820 | |||
| South East | 5,873 | 6,321 | |||
| South West | 3,420 | 2,359 | |||
| Wales | 723 | 241 | |||
| West Midlands | 3,666 | 4,683 | |||
| Yorkshire and Humber | 2,883 | 3,208 | |||
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Source: UK Health Security Agency
Note: this excludes 4% people for whom we did not hold data for country of birth. Data for Northern Ireland was not reported in 2023. People born outside the UK includes people who acquired HIV after arriving in the UK.
HIV surveillance data in the UK by demographic characteristics and geographical region is available at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hiv-annual-data-tables
The latest update was published on 1 October 2024.
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