Reports on HIV/AIDS and STIs in the United Kingdom published

To coincide with World AIDS Day 2001 (1 December) two new reports presenting latest HIV and STI data in the United Kingdom (UK) have been published, as mentioned in the Communicable Disease Report last week (1,2). HIV and AIDS in the UK – an epidemiological review: 2000 (<www.phls.org.uk/facts/HIV/HIVreport.pdf>) describes the HIV epidemic in the UK from its beginnings through to the end of 2000. By that time over 44 000 cases of HIV infection had been reported as diagnosed in the UK, and the number of people reported as seen for HIV related care during 2000 was over 23 000.