PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
(3 April 2025)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department holds on the number of people who were diagnosed with HIV/AIDS in (a) Bournemouth and (b) South West England for each of the past five years.

Asked by:
Jessica Toale (Labour)

The following table shows the number of HIV diagnoses, and the number of those diagnoses that were first diagnosed in the United Kingdom, for Bournemouth and the South West region, from 2019 to 2023:

Year	Bournemouth		South West region
	All HIV diagnoses	Of which first diagnosed in UK	All HIV diagnoses	Of which first diagnosed in UK
2019	27	19	244	167
2020	23	14	168	110
2021	21	12	135	83
2022	28	18	221	102
2023	48	15	447	165

Further information on the number of people diagnosed with HIV by local authority and health region is publicly available at the following link:

https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/sexualhealth/data#page/4/gid/1938133286/pat/15/par/E92000001/ati/6/are/E12000009/iid/91818/age/1/sex/4/cat/-1/ctp/-1/yrr/1/cid/4/tbm/1/page-options/car-do-0

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