Look out for:
📅 November: interim 36-month public health evaluation of ED opt-out BBV treating programme published
📅 HIV Action Plan for England 2026 to 2030
📅 2026: HIV Action Plan monitoring and evaluation framework report - 2024 data

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📔 Based on feedback from a stakeholder consultation, we have also made adjustments to the language used in our outputs

👀 please see report appendix for details on key groups and language

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📔 For the first time, we focus 5 key adult populations for which inequalities in HIV have been observed:
1️⃣Ethnic minority gay and bisexual men
2️⃣White gay and bisexual men
3️⃣Black African heterosexual men
4️⃣Black African heterosexual women
5️⃣Other ethnic minority heterosexuals

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❗ Widening inequalities in HIV testing, PrEP and diagnoses between ethnicities and gender
❗ Need to improve PrEP access, HIV testing uptake and partner notification, particularly among ethnic minorities, young people and women

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💡 Decrease in deaths among people living with HIV in England of 14% from 751 to 643 between 2023 and 2024

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💡 England continues to meet the UNAIDS targets
🎗️ 95% of adults estimated to be diagnosed
🎗️ 99% of adults attending care on treatment
🎗️ 98% of people on treatment having undetectable levels of virus

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💡 Over half of people living with diagnosed HIV aged 50 and over in England, reflecting the success of HIV treatment in enabling people with HIV to live long and healthy lives

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💡 7.7% increase in people accessing HIV prevention medication (HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis also called PrEP) in England, with 111,123 people now receiving this in 2024
💡 inequalities in access to PrEP remain

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💡 3% increase in HIV testing in sexual health services in England between 2023 and 2024 in all groups but still below pre-COVID levels for heterosexuals

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💡 42% of all new cases in England were late diagnoses, with adults diagnosed late ten times more likely to die within a year compared to adults diagnosed promptly.
💡 Half of Black African heterosexuals were diagnosed late compared to under a third of gay and bisexual men

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💡 6% decrease in diagnoses among gay and bisexual men in England from 859 to 810, though ethnic minority men constituted 35% of all diagnoses in this group
💡 Geographic variations persist, with diagnoses decreasing in London but increasing outside London among heterosexual men

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💡 The number of new HIV diagnoses in England decreased by 4% between 2023 and 2023 from 3,169 to 3,043

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