Table 1

New HIV diagnoses among MSM in England and Wales by ethnicity and year of diagnosis, 1997–2002

Ethnic group	Year of diagnosis
	1997		1998		1999		2000		2001		2002		Total
	No	%	No	%	No	%	No	%	No	%	No	%	No	%
Reports received by end of December 2003.
MSM, men who have sex with men; IPB, Indian/Pakistani/Bangladeshi; BME, black and minority ethnic

Black and minority ethnic	164	12.3	137	10.7	136	10.5	178	12.5	218	13.0	207	12.4	1040	12.0
White	1073	80.8	1084	84.6	1078	83.2	1154	80.8	1359	80.9	1314	78.8	7062	81.4
Not reported	91	6.9	61	4.8	81	6.3	97	6.8	102	6.1	147	8.8	579	6.7
All MSM	1328	100.0	1282	100.0	1295	100.0	1429	100.0	1679	100.0	1668	100.0	8681	100.0

Black African	8	4.9	15	10.9	13	9.6	28	15.7	27	12.4	33	15.9	124	11.9
Black Caribbean	33	20.1	32	23.4	42	30.9	42	23.6	61	28.0	66	31.9	276	26.5
Black other	21	12.8	15	10.9	15	11.0	14	7.9	18	8.3	18	8.7	101	9.7
IPB	8	4.9	13	9.5	12	8.8	19	10.7	23	10.6	10	4.8	85	8.2
Other/Mixed	94	57.3	62	45.3	54	39.7	75	42.1	89	40.8	80	38.6	454	43.7
All BME MSM	164	100.0	137	100.0	136	100.0	178	100.0	218	100.0	207	100.0	1040	100.0