New Key Data and Trends in HIV in Germany, 2022 and 2023

On the occasion of the international AIDS conference at the end of July in Munich, the Robert Koch Institute has released new Key Data and Trends for the federal states and Germany, as well as a comprehensive analysis of the HIV/AIDS situation in Germany. The data has been published also in English in the Epidemiological Bulletin 28/2024. The number of new HIV infections in Germany and among people of German origin who have contracted HIV abroad is estimated to be 1,900 in 2022 and 2,200 in 2023, which means that the number of new HIV infections in 2023 will be roughly the same as in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic. Compared to previous years, the proportion of first diagnoses with advanced infection or in the AIDS stage remained roughly constant. As HIV generally no longer leads to death, the number of people living with an HIV infection in Germany rose to 96,700 by the end of 2023. Of these, around 8,200 HIV infections have not yet been diagnosed.