Rising Foreign HIV Infections in Korea: 15,880 Survivors and Counting

2023-12-05 21:47:19

The rate of foreign infections is increasing… 15,880 Korean survivors

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The number of new HIV infections, which had been decreasing for a while, increased again last year.

6 days [데이터솜]As a result of checking the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency’s ‘occurrence of new HIV infections in Korea from 2013 to 2022’, it was found that there were 1,066 new infections last year, an increase of 91 compared to 975 the previous year. The number of new HIV infections, which had decreased for two consecutive years since 2019, has increased again.

Looking at the number of new infections since 2013, ▶ 1,114 people in 2013 ▶ 1,191 people in 2014 ▶ 1,152 people in 2015 ▶ 1,197 people in 2016 ▶ 1,190 people in 2017 ▶ 1,206 people in 2018 ▶ 1,223 people in 2019 ▶ 1016 people in 2020 ▶2021 There were 975 people in 2022 and 1,066 people in 2022.

Of the 1,066 new infections last year, 825 (77.4%) were Koreans and 241 (22.6%) were foreigners. While the proportion of domestically infected people decreases every year from 90.9% in 2013 to 77.4% last year, the number of foreigners infected is increasing.

The number of Koreans infected by year is ▶1013 in 2013 ▶1081 in 2014 ▶1018 in 2015 ▶1060 in 2016 ▶1008 in 2017 ▶989 in 2018 ▶1006 in 2019 ▶2020 818 people ▶773 in 2021 People ▶As of 2022, the number is 825, which generally remains around 1,000.

Last year, 142 Koreans died from HIV. The number of Koreans dying from HIV remains at around 150 each year.

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The total number of surviving infected people nearly doubled from 8,547 in 2013 to 15,880 last year.

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