Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord O’Shaughnessy on 20 February (HL 5325), what is the percentage of overall new HIV infections classified as late diagnosis for each of the last five years.

A late HIV diagnosis is defined as having a CD4 cell count less than 350 cells/mm³ within three months (91 days) of diagnosis. The following table shows the percentage of HIV diagnoses classified as late among adults (aged 15 years and above) diagnosed in the United Kingdom for each of the last five years:

Source: Official Statistics – HIV: annual data tables

Late diagnosis data for 2016 will be published in October 2017.