Table 1.
Comparison of newly diagnosed HIV cases with and without DSS/DPS samples by gender, origin, age, mode of transmission, region of presumed infection, region of origin and year of diagnosis, 2008–2014, Germany
| Newly diagnosed HIV cases, n % | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| total | with DSS/DPS4 Sample | weighting | |||
| Total | 20,487 | 100% | 10,257 | 100% | |
| Gender | |||||
| Men | 17,137 | 83.6% | 8,541 | 83.3% | 1.0 |
| Women | 3,350 | 16.4% | 1,716 | 16.7% | 1.0 |
| Region of origin | |||||
| Germany | 12,830 | 62.6% | 6,405 | 62.4% | 1.0 |
| Abroad | 5,454 | 26.6% | 2,853 | 27.8% | 1.0 |
| Unknown | 2,203 | 10.8% | 999 | 9.7% | 1.1 |
| Age group | |||||
| < 25 years | 2,298 | 11.2% | 1,216 | 11.9% | 0.9 |
| 25–34 years | 6,687 | 32.6% | 3,443 | 33.6% | 1.0 |
| 35–44 years | 5,999 | 29.3% | 2,986 | 29.1% | 1.0 |
| 45–54 years | 3,824 | 18.7% | 1,838 | 17.9% | 1.0 |
| > =55 years | 1,679 | 8.2% | 774 | 7.5% | 1.1 |
| Mode of transmission | |||||
| MSM1 | 11,541 | 56.3% | 5,993 | 58.4% | 1.0 |
| HET2 | 3,789 | 18.5% | 1,909 | 18.6% | 1.0 |
| IDU3 | 649 | 3.2% | 307 | 3.0% | 1.1 |
| Unknown | 4,508 | 22.0% | 2,048 | 20.0% | 1.1 |
| Region of presumed infection | |||||
| Germany | 14,184 | 69.2% | 7,124 | 69.5% | 1.0 |
| Abroad | 3,506 | 17.1% | 1,803 | 17.6% | 1.0 |
| Unknown | 2,797 | 13.7% | 1,330 | 13.0% | 1.1 |
| Year of Diagnosis | |||||
| 2008 | 2,745 | 13.4% | 1,264 | 12.3% | 1.1 |
| 2009 | 2,815 | 13.7% | 1,335 | 13.0% | 1.1 |
| 2010a | 2,653 | 12.9% | 332 | 3.2% | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 2,644 | 12.9% | 1,624 | 15.8% | 0.8 |
| 2012 | 2,920 | 14.3% | 1,779 | 17.3% | 0.8 |
| 2013 | 3,232 | 15.8% | 1,890 | 18.4% | 0.9 |
| 2014 | 3,478 | 17.0% | 2,033 | 19.8% | 0.9 |
1 MSM men who have sex with men
2 IDU persons who are intravenous drug users
3 HET persons with heterosexual contact
4 DSS/DPS Sample Dried Serum Spot/Dried Plasma Spot
aDSS/DPS samples were not continuously collected due to the end of the first study in June 2010