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HIV Infection

Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 4399, tabled on 5 September 2024

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) adults and (b) children are living with HIV in each (i) region, (ii) county and (iii) local authority area.

Answered on

18 September 2024

While the information is not collected in the format requested, the following table shows the number of children in 2020, and the number of adults in 2022, living with diagnosed HIV infection in England, broken down by region:

Children with HIV in 2020

Adults with HIV in 2022

London

76

37,267

East of England

21

8,076

East Midlands

16

5,777

West Midlands

31

7,887

North East

3

2,151

North West

29

10,200

South East

22

11,680

South West

7

5,413

Yorkshire and Humber

21

5,946

England

226

94,397

Source: statistics are published by the UK Health Security Agency, and are available at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hiv-annual-data-tables
Note: children are counted as those under 15 years old and adults are counted as those 15 years old or over.

In addition, the following table shows the number of adults living with diagnosed HIV infection in England, broken down by local authority, in 2022:

Local authority

Adults living with diagnosed HIV

Barking and Dagenham

786

Barnet

856

Barnsley

281

Bath and North East Somerset

151

Bedford

302

Bexley

502

Birmingham

2,262

Blackburn with Darwen

114

Blackpool

449

Bolton

422

Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole

782

Bracknell Forest

144

Bradford

561

Brent

1,174

Brighton and Hove

1,760

Bristol

928

Bromley

570

Buckinghamshire UA

578

Bury

271

Calderdale

208

Cambridgeshire

711

Camden

1,505

Central Bedfordshire

306

Cheshire East

333

Cheshire West and Chester

334

City of London

87

Cornwall

379

County Durham

329

Coventry

913

Croydon

1,640

Cumberland

129

Darlington

84

Derby

472

Derbyshire

523

Devon

525

Doncaster

321

Dorset

251

Dudley

350

Ealing

970

East Riding of Yorkshire

156

East Sussex

810

Enfield

1,028

Essex

1,457

Gateshead

190

Gloucestershire

535

Greenwich

1,338

Hackney

1,506

Halton

91

Hammersmith and Fulham

1,160

Hampshire

1,175

Haringey

1,426

Harrow

464

Hartlepool

65

Havering

382

Herefordshire

125

Hertfordshire

1,500

Hillingdon

565

Hounslow

818

Isle of Wight

79

Isles of Scilly

Islington

1,379

Kensington and Chelsea

1,149

Kent

1,608

Kingston upon Hull

256

Kingston upon Thames

266

Kirklees

466

Knowsley

135

Lambeth

3,367

Lancashire

872

Leeds

1,544

Leicester

1,011

Leicestershire

542

Lewisham

1,853

Lincolnshire

560

Liverpool

835

Luton

626

Manchester

2,446

Medway

379

Merton

674

Middlesbrough

172

Milton Keynes

667

Newcastle upon Tyne

460

Newham

1,595

Norfolk

835

North East Lincolnshire

96

North Lincolnshire

108

North Northamptonshire

497

North Somerset

159

North Tyneside

163

North Yorkshire UA

362

Northumberland

162

Nottingham

841

Nottinghamshire

624

Oldham

290

Oxfordshire

501

Peterborough

356

Plymouth

313

Portsmouth

376

Reading

400

Redbridge

612

Redcar and Cleveland

64

Richmond upon Thames

315

Rochdale

316

Rotherham

267

Rutland

29

Salford

914

Sandwell

651

Sefton

261

Sheffield

843

Shropshire

212

Slough

356

Solihull

141

Somerset UA

374

South Gloucestershire

249

South Tyneside

85

Southampton

506

Southend-on-Sea

371

Southwark

2,880

St. Helens

148

Staffordshire

602

Stockport

297

Stockton-on-Tees

167

Stoke-on-Trent

411

Suffolk

655

Sunderland

210

Surrey

1,382

Sutton

357

Swindon

280

Tameside

340

Telford and Wrekin

182

Thurrock

290

Torbay

190

Tower Hamlets

1,854

Trafford

331

Wakefield

349

Walsall

454

Waltham Forest

926

Wandsworth

1,426

Warrington

174

Warwickshire

550

West Berkshire

109

West Northamptonshire

678

West Sussex

1,183

Westminster

1,837

Westmorland and Furness

93

Wigan

325

Wiltshire

297

Windsor and Maidenhead

182

Wirral

280

Wokingham

152

Wolverhampton

648

Worcestershire

386

York

128

England

94,397

Source: statistics are published by the UK Health Security Agency, and are available at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hiv-annual-data-tables

While the number of adults living with diagnosed HIV infection by local authority is available, the information on children is not held in the format requested. However, the number of children living with diagnosed HIV infection has reduced from 1,489 in 2013, to 225 in 2020. This is due to the success of antenatal screening, which has prevented vertical transmission of HIV, combined with the success of HIV treatment. HIV treatment has enabled those born with HIV to live into adulthood.