To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department holds on the number of people who were diagnosed with HIV/AIDS in (a) Bournemouth and (b) South West England for each of the past five years.
Answered on
9 April 2025
The following table shows the number of HIV diagnoses, and the number of those diagnoses that were first diagnosed in the United Kingdom, for Bournemouth and the South West region, from 2019 to 2023:
Year | Bournemouth | South West region | ||
All HIV diagnoses | Of which first diagnosed in UK | All HIV diagnoses | Of which first diagnosed in UK | |
2019 | 27 | 19 | 244 | 167 |
2020 | 23 | 14 | 168 | 110 |
2021 | 21 | 12 | 135 | 83 |
2022 | 28 | 18 | 221 | 102 |
2023 | 48 | 15 | 447 | 165 |
Further information on the number of people diagnosed with HIV by local authority and health region is publicly available at the following link: