This report has been published jointly by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the WHO Regional Office for Europe. The Regional Office developed the overview of the European Region as a whole and validated the figures of the non-member countries of the European Union (EU)/European Economic Area (EEA) and ECDC developed the overview of the EU/EEA countries and validated the EU/EEA figures.
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Almost every second person (47%) diagnosed in 2014 was a late presenter or with indication of advanced infection. This means that these individuals are only diagnosed when their immune system already starts to fail.
When a group of HIV researchers met on 21–22 January 2008 in Stockholm to discuss HIV testing, they quickly came to the realisation that HIV testing should no longer be subject to ethical parameters that substantially differ from other diseases.
This report is based on HIV surveillance data reported by 30 Member States of the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) (all except Germany) and AIDS data reported by 28 EU/EEA countries (all except Belgium, Germany and Sweden) for 2017. All countries annually report case-based data to the TESSy HIV/AIDS database in accordance with standard EU case definitions [4]. The database is jointly coordinated by ECDC and the WHO Regional Office for Europe.