Infections: blood-borne

Summary statistics for blood-borne infections in Scotland are given below. Detailed surveillance data and trend information are available from the Health Protection Scotland Statistics (HPS) website.

HIV and AIDS

  • In 2010, 360 diagnoses of HIV were reported to HPS. This figure compares with annual totals of 428 in 2009 and 411 in 2008.
  • HIV diagnosis in Scotland as a result of sexual intercourse between men and women accounted for 42% of all new cases in 2010.
  • There were 30 new cases of AIDS in 2009. This figure compares to 39 new cases in 2008 and 36 new cases in 2007.

Detailed HIV and AIDS surveillance data and trend information are available from the Health Protection Scotland Statistics(HPS) website.

Hepatitis B

  • In 2002, 354 cases of hepatitis B infection were reported by laboratories to HPS, compared to 357 cases in 2001 and 360 cases in 2000.

Hepatitis C

  • In 2010, there were 2,129 persons reported to be hepatitis C antibody positive in Scotland (40.8 per 100 000 population).

Detailed Hepatitis C surveillance data and trend information are available from the Health Protection Scotland Statistics(HPS) website.

In addition, the HPS Weekly Report publishes monthly and quarterly surveillance reports for each of the areas that HPS cover. Current and archived issues of the HPS weekly report can be accessed from the Publications section of the Health Protection Scotlandwebsite.

Please note: If you require the most up-to-date data available, please check the data sources directly as new data may have been published since these data pages were last updated. Although we endeavour to ensure that the data pages are kept up-to-date, there may be a time lag between new data being published and the relevant ScotPHO web pages being updated.