- Worldwide, it is estimated that there are 33 million people living with HIV
- There were approximately 2.7 million new diagnoses of HIV in 2007; that’s approximately five per minute…
- …and approximately 2 million deaths from HIV-related illnesses the same year
- The number of people living with HIV in the UK is estimated to be in the region of 73,000
- There were 7,800 new cases diagnosed in the UK in 2006 – that’s approximately 21 new diagnoses per day
Approximately one-third of people living with HIV are unaware that they have it
Source: National AIDS Trust website. A link to this is on the right hand side of this page
- There are less than 100 people living with HIV in South Gloucestershire; although the overall total has risen over the years, that’s still less than 0.04% of the local population of around 254,500.
- In financial terms, it has been estimated by the Department of Health that each new HIV diagnosis costs the economy between £500,000 and £1m in terms of drugs, time off work, hospital appointments etc