HIV Infection

(asked on 12th December 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to reduce the number of late diagnoses of HIV in England.


Answered by
Steve Brine Portrait
Steve Brine
This question was answered on 20th December 2018

Encouraging uptake of HIV testing particularly amongst those at increased risk is key to the reduction of late diagnosis.

Public Health England (PHE) published recommendations to increase rates of HIV testing in the recent HIV in the United Kingdom report, available to view at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hiv-in-the-united-kingdom

PHE has a range of programmes with the aim of increasing HIV testing, these include HIV Prevention England (HPE); the National HIV Self-Sampling service which provides individuals with the opportunity to self-sample online and the HIV Innovation Fund allowing community organisations to implement HIV prevention projects.

HPE is the national HIV prevention programme for England. It is a nationally funded programme designed to complement locally commissioned prevention in areas of higher prevalence. Of the five goals HPE is tasked to deliver increasing HIV testing and reduce undiagnosed or late diagnosis is one.

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