Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information her Department holds on the number of (a) men who have sex with men, (b) women, (c) Black men and (d) Black women that were accessing PrEP in England in (i) 2021, (ii) 2022 and (iii) 2023.
Data for 2023 is not yet available and is to be published in autumn of 2024. The following table shows the number of people in 2021 and 2022 who initiated or continued HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) at sexual health services (SHSs) in England in the past two years for the demographic groups requested, as well as the proportion among those with HIV PrEP need:
| 2021 | 2022 |
England | 61,510 (69.7%) | 86,324(71.0%) |
Gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men | 51,689 (72.2%) | 72,457 (73.5%) |
Women | 1,237 (31.5%) | 2,467 (41.9%) |
Black men (black African, black Caribbean and black other categories) | 2,408 (61.7%) | 2,986 (61.7%) |
Black women (black African, black Caribbean and black other categories) | 80 (19.0%) | 175 (30.2%) |
More data is available at the following links:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hiv-annual-data-tables