The means that the UK has met (and exceeded) the UNAIDs 90-90-90 targets for 2020. Of all the people living with HIV in the UK, 89% are virally suppressed. In 2019, 1,700 MSM were newly diagnosed with HIV. We use the term men who have sex with men to describe all gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men. 98% of people diagnosed with HIV in the UK are on treatment, and 97% of those on treatment are virally suppressed which means they can’t pass the virus on. This recent reduction has been mostly driven by fewer HIV diagnoses among gay and bisexual men, which have decreased by 47 since 2014 (3,214 new diagnoses in 2014 to 1,700 in 2019).This means that around 1 in 16 people living with HIV in the UK do not know that they have the virus. 94% of these people are diagnosed, and therefore know that they have HIV.In 2019, it was estimated that there are 105,200 people living with HIV in the UK. If taken as percentages of all people living with HIV, the 90-90-90 targets translate as 90% of all people living with HIV to be diagnosed, 81% of all people living with HIV are on treatment and 73% of all people living with HIV are virally suppressed.The aim was for 90% of all people living with HIV to be diagnosed, 90% of those diagnosed to receive HIV treatment and 90% of those receiving treatment to achieve viral suppression, by 2020.Living with HIV In 2014, UNAIDS established the global 90-90-90 targets.
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