Table 1

Rates of newly diagnosed HIV infection, United Kingdom, 2002

Ethnic groupPopulationNew HIV diagnosesRate per 100 000Rate ratio (95% CI)
Source: Health Protection Agency and the Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health10 and Table S102, 2001 Census.11
Ethnic groupings are those used by the Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre.
White54 153 89816673.11 (reference)
Black Caribbean565 87621437.812.3 (10.6 to 14.2)
Black African485 2772610537.8174.7 (164.2 to 185.9)
Black other97 5854647.115.3 (11.2 to 20.5)
Indian/Pakistani/Bangladeshi/other Asian/Chinese2 578 826401.60.5 (0.4 to 0.7)
Other/mixed907 73215016.55.4 (4.5 to 6.3)
Not known984