INCREASED HIV TESTING IN EUROPE

They highlight that 53% of HIV diagnoses happen at the late stage of infection, which shows that European testing strategies are not sufficient to catch the virus early.

The number of newly reported HIV diagnoses and the estimated number of new HIV infections in the region show that more people have become infected with HIV over the last decade than have been diagnosed, indicating that the number of people living with undiagnosed HIV is increasing. The opposite has been happening in the EU and EEA regions, with the number of people diagnosed falling.