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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 6.
Published in final edited form as: Sci Transl Med. 2016 Jan 6;8(320):320ra2. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aad1863

Table 1. HIV incidence trends and care for infected MSM in the Netherlands and other countries.

Country Annual testing of uninfected MSM Diagnosed MSM receiving ART Treated MSM with suppressed viral load Retention of MSM in care HIV incidence among MSM
Year % Year % Median CD4 count at ART initiation (cells/ml) Year % Viral load threshold (cps/ml) Year % Year Trend
Netherlands 2003 ?? 2003 79 202 2003 80 <100 2003 92 2003 Increasing n
2013 38.4 a 2013 90 382 2013 91 <100 2012 95 2013 Stable n
Australia 2013 61.1 b 2013 75 b 379 h 2013 88 k, <50 2013 96 h, 2013 Increasing, stable in Western Australia and Queensland o
British Columbia 2009 51 c 2014 85 e 411 e 2014 84 e <50 2011 86 d, 2013 Stable p
Switzerland 2010 39.3 a 2014 86 f 402 f 2012 96 l, <200 2012 97 i, 2014 Decreasing new diagnoses and recent infections q
United Kingdom 2010 36.4 a 2013 86 g 420 j 2013 91 m <200 2013 95 m 2013 Stable r
a

From The EMIS Network. EMIS 2010: The European Men-Who-Have-Sex-With-Men Internet Survey. Findings from 38 countries. Stockholm: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, 2013.

b

From Gay Community Periodic Surveys, https://kirby.unsw.edu.au/projects/gay-community-periodic-surveys, reported in HIV, hepatitis, and sexually transmissible infections in Australia, Annual surveillance report 2014.

c

From Mancount, prospective cross-sectional survey in Vancouver http://www.mancount.ca/files/ManCount_Report2010.pdf.

d

From Nosyk B, Montaner JS, Colley G, et al. The cascade of HIV care in British Columbia, Canada, 1996-2011: a population-based retrospective cohort study. The Lancet infectious diseases 2014;14:40-9

e

From HIV monitoring quarterly report for British Columbia, Fourth quarter 2014.

f

2621 out of 3081 MSM on ART and registered in the Swiss HIV Cohort Study, personal communication with the Datacenter of the Swiss HIV Cohort Study.

h

From Australian HIV Observational Database Annual Report 2014, reporting care indicators in a closed observational cohort.

j

Within 9 months prior to ART initiation, personal communication PHE.

k

From the Australian HIV Observational Database, reported in HIV, hepatitis, and sexually transmissible infections in Australia, Annual surveillance report 2014.

l

Kohler P, Schmidt AJ, Ledergerber B, Vernazza P, CROI2015, http://www.croiconference.org/sites/default/files/posters-2015/1008.pdf.

m

From HIV in the United Kingdom: 2014 Report.

n

From reference (44).

o

From fact sheet HIV and AIDS in Australia, 20th International AIDS conference.

q

From HIV- und STI-Fallzahlen 2014: Berichterstattung, Analysen und Trends, in comparison with numbers for 2008 in the 2012 report, http://www.bag.admin.ch/hiv_aids/12472/12480/12481/12484/index.html?lang=de.

r

From Birrell PJ, Gill ON, Delpech VC, et al. HIV incidence in men who have sex with men in England and Wales 2001-10: a nationwide population study. The Lancet infectious diseases 2013;13:313-8.

Estimate not specific to MSM.