Idil Eser
(asked on 5th July 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many individuals are diagnosed as having HIV in England and Wales, broken down by (1) age, and (2) gender.
The number of people newly diagnosed with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in England and Wales in 2014 by age is shown in Table 1; and gender is shown in Table 2. This is the latest year for which data is available.
Table 1: New HIV diagnoses by age group; England & Wales, 2014
Country | Age at diagnosis | 2014 |
England | Less than 15 | 25 |
15-24 | 666 | |
25-34 | 1,851 | |
35-44 | 1,429 | |
45-54 | 1,008 | |
55-64 | 388 | |
65+ | 192 | |
Not reported | 0 | |
Total | 5,559 | |
Wales* | Less than 15 | Less than 5 |
15-24 | 20 | |
25-34 | 55 | |
35-44 | 46 | |
45-54 | 44 | |
55-64 | 13 | |
65+ | Less than 10 | |
Not reported | 0 | |
Total | 189 |
Note: *Cells containing values between 1 and 4 in Wales have been masked using the notation Less than 5 and secondary masking has also been applied to avoid the risk of deductive disclosure.
Table 2: New HIV diagnoses by gender; England & Wales, 2014
Country | Gender | 2014 |
England | Men | 4,169 |
Women | 1,390 | |
Total | 5,559 | |
Wales | Men | 138 |
Women | 51 | |
Total | 189 |