Infections: blood-borne
Some summary statistics for blood-borne infections in Scotland are given below. Detailed surveillance data and trend information can be found by following links from the A to Z list of topics on the Health Protection Scotland (HPS) website.
HIV and AIDS
- The following information is summarised from the latest available publication - HIV in Scotland: update to 31 December 2022
- During 2022, 108 individuals in Scotland were diagnosed as HIV antibody positive for the first time.
- It is estimated that there are currently 6,600 persons living in Scotland who have been diagnosed HIV-positive.
Detailed HIV and AIDS surveillance data and trend information can be found by following links from the HIV topic page on the Public Health Scotland website.
Hepatitis B
- A total of 4,986 individuals had been diagnosed and were living with chronic hepatitis B infection at the end of December 2016. However this represents only 55% of the estimated 9,000 people living with hepatitis B in Scotland.
- The number of people diagnosed with acute hepatitis B infection in Scotland has declined over the last ten years; there were 19 new diagnoses in 2018
- In 2016 there were 385 new reports of chronic HBV infection.
- More details can be found by following links from the Hepatitis B topic page on the Public Health Scotland website
- Data on new hepatitis B infections are available from the Scottish Government's Sexual Health and Blood Borne Virus (SHBBV) open access Data Portal, under outcome 1.1
Hepatitis C
- Information on hepatitis C is presented in the hepatitis C section of the ScotPHO website.
- Detailed Hepatitis C surveillance data and trend information can be found by following links from the Hepatitis C topic page on the Public Health Scotland website.
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.
