Author(s):
Pharris, Anastasia ; Quinten, Chantal ; Noori, Teymur ; Amato-Gauci, Andrew J ; van Sighem, Ard ; ECDC HIV/AIDS Surveillance and Dublin Declaration Monitoring Networks, (Helena Cortes Martins)
Date: 2016
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.18/4665
Origin: Repositório Científico do Instituto Nacional de Saúde
Subject(s): HIV Infection; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; AIDS; Epidemiology; Modelling; European Union; European Economic Area; VIH; Incidência; Infecções Sexualmente Transmissíveis
Description
Since 2011, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) incidence appears unchanged in the European Union/European Economic Area with between 29,000 and 33,000 new cases reported annually up to 2015. Despite evidence that HIV diagnosis is occurring earlier post-infection, the estimated number of people living with HIV (PLHIV) who were unaware of being infected in 2015 was 122,000, or 15% of all PLHIV (n=810,000). This is concerning as such individuals cannot benefit from highly effective treatment and may unknowingly sustain transmission.
