New HIV diagnoses in England are the lowest since 2000 as official figures reveal 4,500 were diagnosed with the infection last year

New HIV diagnoses in England have hit an 18-year low in 2018 after falling for the fourth year in a row. Public Health England statistics showed there were 4,484 new cases of the sexually transmitted infection last year. This was a drop of 277 people (six per cent) from the previous year and marks a 28 per cent fall since 2014. It comes after the country last year hit the United Nations target of having at least 90 per cent of HIV patients with such low levels of the virus that they can’t pass it on.  PHE attributed the fall to ‘enormous testing and prevention efforts’ but the Terrence Higgins Trust, which noted progress is slowing, said more work needs to be done because there are still ‘unacceptable’ numbers of people being diagnosed late. A Government health minister welcomed the low figure and said she would not get complacent in pursuit of the target of recording no new HIV cases from 2030. The number of new HIV cases was last year the lowest it has been since 2000, according to Public Health England, and 28 per cent fewer people were diagnosed than in 2014 The drop in HIV cases in… Read full this story

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