HIV Infection: Drugs

(asked on 10th October 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will publish data on the uptake of HIV medicine by drug name in (a) England, (b) each parliamentary constituency, (c) each clinical commissioning group and (d) each local authority area in the most recent year for which figures are available.


Answered by
Steve Brine Portrait
Steve Brine
This question was answered on 18th October 2017

There were 81,240 people in England accessing the HIV medicine antiretroviral therapy in 2016. Data on people accessing HIV medicine is not available at parliamentary constituency, clinical commissioning group or local authority level.

Data on the uptake of HIV medicine by: drug name; average period of time between a diagnosis of HIV and initiation on antiretroviral therapy; number of people accessing HIV treatment by ethnicity and number of people living with HIV received treatment at each HIV clinic in England are not available in the format requested.

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