Table 1

HIV diagnoses made in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland among adults probably infected in west Africa by probable country of infection and HIV type: 1985 to 2003

Probable country of infection	Reported HIV type					Proportion of reported HIV infections typed as either HIV-2 or HIV-1/HIV-2
Probable country of infection	HIV-1	HIV-2 or HIV-1/HIV-2	Subtotal	Type notreported	Total	Lower estimate‡ (%)	Higher estimate‡ (%)
Reports received by end of March 2004.
*Between 5 and 15 individuals were diagnosed and reported as infected in each of these countries and had an HIV type reported.
†Fewer than 5 individuals were diagnosed and reported as infected in each of these countries and had a HIV type reported.
‡Higher estimate is the proportion of patients reported with a HIV type (subtotal) who were HIV-2 or HIV-1/HIV-2; lower estimate is the proportion of all reported patients (total) who were HIV-2 or HIV-1/HIV-2.
Nigeria	387	4	391	155	546	0.7	1.0
Ghana	217	15	232	84	316	4.7	6.5
Sierra Leone	78	2	80	22	102	2.0	2.5
Gambia	39	7	46	14	60	11.7	15.2
Liberia, Togo, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Senegal*	33	6	39	16	55	10.9	15.4
Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, country not known†	15	2	17	6	23	8.7	11.8
West Africa total	917	52	969	355	1324	3.9	5.4