I’ll tell you about the latest Irish HIV figures, those for 2024, published last week by the Health Protection Surveillance Centre. I wrote to the HPSC to get greater detail on some of its newly-published data, as I have done most years over the last 25 or so when the HIV figures have come out. The HPSC has now provided that further information.
There was a total of 989 people in Ireland recorded as being HIV-infected in 2024. Just 239 (24%) of those were diagnosed in Ireland. Most people with HIV had what the HPSC calls an existing diagnosis, which is an obscure way of saying that they are immigrants who already knew they were HIV-infected before they came here. Of the people diagnosed in Ireland, what HPSC calls new diagnoses, most of these are also immigrants.
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