The New AIDS Epidemic

Feb 7, 2020 by

By Arnau Busquets Guàrdia, Politico:

There are grounds for optimism in the global fight against AIDS, including in the EU — but not all members of the bloc can sing to the same tune.

There are significant differences among European countries regarding the number of new cases, mode of transmission and the effect of migration, among other factors.

Overall, the number of new HIV cases detected every year in EU27 countries and the U.K. declined 11 percent between 2007 and 2017, while the number of AIDS diagnoses fell by 58 percent. New HIV cases among men having sex with men started to decline in 2015, but this group still accounts for half of all diagnoses.

Here is a look at the current state of the epidemic.

[…]  For men, new HIV cases among 20-to-29-year-olds peaked in 2015 in EU28 countries and have declined since. Men aged 25-29 show the highest rate of new cases among the whole population.

This is because sex between men remains the main mode of transmission of HIV in the EU, which makes men overall three times more likely to contract HIV than women.

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Half of new HIV diagnoses with a known mode of transmission in 2017 came from men who have sex with other men. Heterosexual sex accounts for a third of new cases, and injecting drugs causes about 5 percent.

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