Trends in new HIV diagnoses and factors contributing to late diagnosis among migrant populations in EU/EEA countries, 2014 to 2023

Juliana Reyes-Urueña; Giorgia Stoppa; Federica Pizzolato; Marieke J van der Werf; Charlotte Deogan; Vítor Cabral-Veríssimo; Helena Cortes-Martins; Jessika Deblonde; Asuncion Diaz; Victoria Hernando; Erna Milunka-Kojic; Joël Mossong; Kate O'Donnell; Eline Op de Coul; Chrysa Tsiara; Lilian van Leest; Dominique Van Beckhoven; Maria Wessman; Robert Whittaker; the EU/EEA HIV network

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Trends in new HIV diagnoses and factors contributing to late diagnosis among migrant populations in EU/EEA countries, 2014 to 2023
Juliana Reyes-Urueña¹ , Giorgia Stoppa^2,* , Federica Pizzolato^2,* , Marieke J van der Werf¹ , Charlotte Deogan¹ , Vítor Cabral-Veríssimo³ , Helena Cortes-Martins⁴ , Jessika Deblonde⁵ , Asuncion Diaz⁶ , Victoria Hernando⁶ , Erna Milunka-Kojic⁷ , Joël Mossong⁸ , Kate O'Donnell⁹ , Eline Op de Coul¹⁰ , Chrysa Tsiara¹¹ , Lilian van Leest¹² , Dominique Van Beckhoven⁵ , Maria Wessman¹³ , Robert Whittaker¹⁴ , the EU/EEA HIV network¹⁵
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Affiliations: ¹ European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden ² Unit of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Public Health, Department of Cardiac, Thoracic, Vascular Sciences and Public Health, University of Padova, Padua, Italy ³ Division of Epidemiology and Statistics, Directorate-General of Health, Lisbon, Portugal ⁴ Department of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Health Dr Ricardo Jorge, Lisbon, Portugal ⁵ Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases, Public Health and Surveillance, Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium ⁶ Unidad de Vigilancia de VIH, ITS y Hepatitis B y C, Centro Nacional de Epidemiología, CIBERINFEC, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain ⁷ Division of Infectious Diseases, Landspítali Haskolasjúkrahus, Reykjavik, Iceland ⁸ Division de l’inspection sanitaire, Ministère de la Santé et de la Sécurité Sociale, Luxembourg, Luxembourg ⁹ Health Protection Surveillance Centre, Dublin, Ireland ¹⁰ National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands ¹¹ HIV/AIDS Surveillance Department, National Public Health Organization, Athens, Greece ¹² Unit for Epidemiological Monitoring, Public Health Agency of Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden ¹³ Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Prevention, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark ¹⁴ Section for respiratory, blood-borne and sexually transmitted infections, Department of Infection Control and Vaccines, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway ¹⁵ The members of the EU/EEA HIV network are listed under Collaborators ^* These authors contributed equally to this work.

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ECDC/WHO HIV Surveillance Network members: Giedrė Aleksienė, Mary Archibald, Maria Axelsson, Birgit van Benthem, Joana Bettencourt, Tatjana Nemeth Blazic, Pierre Braquet, Henrikki Brummer-Korvenkontio, Alexandra Bražinová, Anneli Carlander, Françoise Cazein, Helena Cortes Martins, Jessika Deblonde, Anna Demetriou, Lena Dillner, Asuncion Diaz, Ziad El-Khatib, Jevgenia Epstein, Georgios Ferentinos, Ágnes Galgóczi, Anna Margret Gudmundsdottir, Barbara Gunsenheimer-Bartmeyer, Patrick Hoffmann, Derval Igoe, Irene Kászoni-Rückerl, Mirjana Lana Kosanovic Licina, Irena Klavs, Šarlote Konova, Erna Milunka Kojic, Tanja Kustec, Lilian van Leest, Elaine Lautier, Kirsi Liitsola, Florence Lot, Jackie Maistre Melillo, Marek Malý, Mariana Mardarescu, Joël Mossong, Marta Niedźwiedzka-Stadnik, Kate O’Donnell, Eline Op de Coul, Jurgita Pakalniškienė, Dimitra Paraskeva, Pedro Pinto Leite, Kristi Rüütel, Magdalena Rosinska, George Siakallis, Barbara Suligoi, Maria Elena Tosti, Vítor Cabral Veríssimo, Esther Walser-Domjan, Maria Wessman, Robert Whittaker, Elena Xenofontos, Hana Zákoucká, Natig Zulfugarov

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Citation style for this article: Reyes-Urueña Juliana, Stoppa Giorgia, Pizzolato Federica, van der Werf Marieke J, Deogan Charlotte, Cabral-Veríssimo Vítor, Cortes-Martins Helena, Deblonde Jessika, Diaz Asuncion, Hernando Victoria, Milunka-Kojic Erna, Mossong Joël, O'Donnell Kate, de Coul Eline Op, Tsiara Chrysa, van Leest Lilian, Van Beckhoven Dominique, Wessman Maria, Whittaker Robert, the EU/EEA HIV network. Trends in new HIV diagnoses and factors contributing to late diagnosis among migrant populations in EU/EEA countries, 2014 to 2023. Euro Surveill. 2024;29(48):pii=2400759. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2024.29.48.2400759 Received: 14 Nov 2024; Accepted: 28 Nov 2024

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We analysed trends in new HIV diagnoses and factors contributing to late diagnosis among migrants in countries in the European Union (EU)/European Economic Area (EEA) from 2014 to 2023. Of the total reported HIV diagnoses, 45.9% were in migrants, with 13.3% born in EU/EEA countries and 86.7% in non-EU/EEA countries. Late diagnosis was observed in 52.4% of migrants, particularly among non-EU/EEA migrants with heterosexual transmission, regardless of sex. Improved HIV prevention and testing strategies are essential for at-risk migrant populations.

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