More People Treated
posted: 04/10/2010
The number of people using NHS HIV clinics has risen by 60% in just five years, official figures suggest. In 2005 46,714 people used NHS HIV clinics and this rose to 65,319 people in 2009.
In 2010 nearly 70,000 people can be expected to use NHS HIV clinics and 74,600 in 2011, health minister, Anne Milton, said in a written House of Commons answer to a question from Heidi Alexandra, Labour MP for Lewisham East (SE London).
In NW England 6,238 people used the region’s NHS HIV clinics in 2009.
Predicting ahead
The health minister revealed how they worked out their predictions of 70,000 for 2010 and 74,600 for 2011. "The estimated numbers of diagnosed HIV-infected individuals receiving care in 2010 and 2011 (rounded to the nearest 100) have been extrapolated from the number of individuals seen for HIV care in the previous five years. Between 2005 and 2009, the annual increase in the numbers of HIV care has been between 4,200 and 5,000 and the average annual increase has been used to estimate the numbers that will be seen in 2010 and 2011."
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