Francesca Piddlesden's Article SHAW09 - 'Seven Deadly Sins: 7 things I hate about Aids'  Courtesy of 'theboar' 2009

People living with HIV:

• More than 80,000 people are living with HIV in the UK
• Over a quarter of people with HIV in the UK are undiagnosed
• About two thirds of people living with HIV are male and a third are women
• Over half of all people living with HIV are aged between 30 and 44, but there are significant numbers both of young people and older people now living with HIV
  

New HIV cases in 2007:

• 7,700 new diagnoses in the UK in 2007
• 2,700 new diagnoses among men who have sex with men
• 3,500 new diagnoses among people from black and minority ethnic communities

The HIV statisitcs are updated every November for the previous year. These 2007 figures are the most up-to-date. When new statistics for 2008 are released we will update them here. All figures from the Health Protection Agency report: UK HIV New Diagnoses, August 2008. More detailed statistics are available on the fOR NAT website.

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International Statistic - HIV is increasing in every region of the world

People living with HIV:

• 33 million people living with HIV worldwide
• 30.8 million adults
• 15.5 million women
• 2 million children under 15

New HIV cases in 2007:

• 2.7 million total new cases
• 2.3 million adults
• 370,000 children under 15

HIV-related deaths in 2007:

• 2 million total deaths

The HIV statistics are updated every November for the previous year. These 2007 figures are the most up-to-date. When new statistics for 2008 are released we will update them here. All figures from UNAIDS.

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STD diagnoses at GUM (genitourinary medicine) clinics in the UK: 1998-2007¹

Year	Syphilis (primary and secondary)	Gonorrhea (uncomplicated)	Chlamydia (uncomplicated)	Herpes (first attack)	Genital Warts (first attack)	All new diagnoses
1998	139	13,212	48,726	17,248	70,291	244,282
1999	223	16,470	56,991	17,509	71,748	261,406
2000	342	21,800	68,332	17,823	71,317	284,035
2001	753	23,705	76,515	18,944	73,458	303,169
2002	1,257	25,591	87,588	19,438	74,969	324,170
2003	1,652	24,973	96,159	19,233	76,599	346,168
2004	2,283	22,326	104,739	19,073	80,059	363,289
2005	2,721	19,248	109,418	19,830	81,201	368,258
2006	2,684	18,898	113,783	21,797	83,624	375,843
2007	2,680	18,710	121,986	26,062	89,838	397,990
% change 2006-07	0%	-1%	7%	20%	7%	6%
% change 1998-07	1,828%	42%	150%	51%	28%	63%

Taken from AVERT.

The Stop AIDS Campaign has developed several leaflets that give lots of information:

Introduction to Access to Care and Treatment Campaign

How it all fits together / How it all fits together2

What is HIV?

Prices of medicines

Heath infrastructure

Financing

 

You may also wish to view:

AVERT: Sex Education That Works