HIV Annual Report Released by BC Centre for Disease Control

The BC Centre for Disease Control has released the HIV Annual Report for 2017

 

You can download the 2017 Highlight infographic to share.

 

A summary of trends in HIV can be found on page 4 of the report. These are just a few:

  • The highest rates of new HIV diagnoses were in Vancouver Coastal and Island Health Authorities.
  • Trends by ethnicity have shifted over the past ten years with the percentage of new diagnoses
    among Caucasian people gradually decreasing while the percentage of new diagnoses among
    Asian people increasing and most other ethnicities remaining stable. In 2017, 43% of cases
    were Caucasian, 13% were Asian, and 10% were Indigenous peoples.
  • The majority of new HIV diagnoses among Indigenous peoples are in those who identify as First
    Nations. The number and rate of new HIV diagnoses among First Nations people have decreased
    over time.
  • The number of new HIV diagnoses in people who inject drugs (PWID) continued to decrease
    (10% of all new HIV diagnoses in 2017) for both males and females. The decrease in new
    diagnoses among PWID since 2008 is the main driver of the overall provincial decrease in new
    HIV diagnoses.
  • Two females were newly diagnosed with HIV through prenatal screening in 2017. In 2017,
    23 women living with HIV who had live births accessed care at the Oak Tree Clinic, of which all
    were diagnosed before delivery and received antenatal ART. In 2017, no infants acquired HIV
    from prenatal exposure in BC.

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