HIV and AIDS - Annual Epidemiological Report for 2015

Surveillance report
6 Dec 2017
Publication series: Annual Epidemiological Report on Communicable Diseases in Europe
Time period covered: This report is based on data for 2015 retrieved from The European Surveillance System (TESSy) on 15 November 2016
Cite:

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. HIV and AIDS. In: ECDC. Annual epidemiological report for 2015. Stockholm: ECDC; 2017

In 2015, 29 747 people were diagnosed with HIV in the 31 countries of the EU/EEA, a rate of 5.8 cases per 100 000 population. This figure underestimates the true rate due to underreporting and the delay in reporting HIV diagnoses in a number of countries.