BodyPositive KENT
KENT HIV/AIDS Statistics
These figures have been compiled using the 'AIDS (Control) Act 1987, year ending 31st March 1997. From East & West Kent Health Authorities.
| AREA/HEALTH TRUST | HEALTH AUTHORITY? | NO. PLHA's |
| Mid Kent | WKHA | 8 |
| Kent & Sussex Weald | WKHA | 16 |
| Dartford & Gravesham | WKHA | 28 |
| Medway/North Kent | WKHA | 39 |
| South Kent Hospitals | EKHA | 19 |
| Kent & Canterbury | EKHA | 6 |
| Thanet | EKHA | 6 |
| (misc) hemophiliacs | EKHA | 16 |
| TOTAL | 138 |
As you can see from these figures Kent is a 'Low Prevalence' County, we need to keep it this way. By making Information on prevention freely available and easily accessible. Thank you to those people at the Health Authorities - Public Health Departments, for double checking that I had read the reports correctly and have published the most correct data on our homepages. This was back in January 1998, but as of 3rd March 1998 we have not had a reply, so we assume that all information contained on this page is correct.
The Following figures have been taken from The HIV/AIDS Quarterly Surveillance tables UK DATA TO END OF SEPTEMBER 1997.
| COUNTRY | NO. OF HIV INFECTED PERSONS | AIDS CASES |
| England | 26934 | 13597 |
| Wales | 477 | 178 |
| N.Ireland | 157 | 73 |
| Scotland | 2594 | 871 |
| TOTAL UK | 30162 | 14719 |
England is made up of Region's, KENT forms part of the South Thames Region, in this region up to end September 1997 there has been; 4996 reports of HIV Infection and 2402 cases of AIDS.
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