HIV/AIDS surveillance in Europe 2021 (2020 data)

Surveillance report
Publication series: HIV/AIDS Surveillance in Europe
Cite:

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control/WHO Regional Office for Europe. HIV/AIDS surveillance in Europe 2021 – 2020 data. Stockholm: ECDC; 2021.

This report is the latest in a series published jointly by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the WHO Regional Office for Europe that has been summarizing data on HIV and AIDS in the WHO European Region and in the European Union and European Economic Area (EU/EEA) since 2007.

Executive summary

HIV infection continues to affect the health and wellbeing of millions of people in the WHO European Region. Over the course of the last three decades, over 2.2 million people have been diagnosed and reported with HIV in the WHO European Region, including over 560 000 people in the EU/EEA. In 2020, 104 765 people were newly diagnosed with HIV. The vast majority of people newly diagnosed (81%) were diagnosed in the East, 15% were diagnosed in the West, and 4% in the Centre. Newly diagnosed infections in the Russian Federation contributed 57% of all cases in the WHO European Region. The share of the cases reported from Ukraine was 15% in the Region.

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