title: Estimating HIV incidence and number of undiagnosed individuals living with HIV in the European Union/European Economic Area, 2015.
abstract: Since 2011, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) incidence appears unchanged in the European Union/European Economic Area with between 29,000 and 33,000 new cases reported annually up to 2015. Despite evidence that HIV diagnosis is occurring earlier post-infection, the estimated number of people living with HIV (PLHIV) who were unaware of being infected in 2015 was 122,000, or 15% of all PLHIV (n=810,000). This is concerning as such individuals cannot benefit from highly effective treatment and may unknowingly sustain transmission.
authors.affiliation: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden.
authors.forename: Anastasia
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pharris
authors.affiliation: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden.
authors.forename: Chantal
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Quinten
authors.affiliation: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden.
authors.forename: Teymur
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Noori
authors.affiliation: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden.
authors.forename: Andrew J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Amato-Gauci
authors.affiliation: Stichting HIV Monitoring, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
authors.forename: Ard
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: van Sighem
authors.affiliation: Members are listed at the end of the article.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005060:Europe / Q000453:epidemiology; D005062:European Union; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D015528:HIV Seroprevalence / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D062486:Public Health Surveillance / Q000379:methods*
keywords: HIV infection; acquired immunodeficiency syndrome - AIDS; epidemiology; modelling