title: Ethnic diversity and patterns of infection of a UK HIV-positive patient population outwith major conurbations.
abstract: We surveyed the HIV-positive population attending a major teaching hospital sited outwith a major conurbation. Eighty-five percent of homosexually acquired infections were contracted within the UK and 91% of heterosexually acquired infections were contracted outside of the UK. A strikingly wide range of nationalities (45) and countries of origin of infection were represented within a relatively small patient population. Most patients were non-UK-born immigrants. A high proportion of illegal immigrants were identified within which there was a high proportion lost to follow-up. This degree of ethnic diversity and domiciliary instability is rarely a feature of non-HIV populations in this setting and imposes additional demands on delivery of care and health-care planning.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, UK.
authors.forename: A R A
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Aiken
authors.forename: A M L
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Lever
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants; D005006:Ethnicity; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D006113:United Kingdom / Q000453:epidemiology; D055815:Young Adult