Table. Included HIV prevalence studies for the European Union and European Economic Area and the United Kingdom, by country and population group, 2009–2019 (n = 87 studies).
| Country | Number of studies by population group | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MSM (n = 33a) |
PWID (n = 30b,c) |
Prisoners (n = 14b) |
SW (n = 9b) |
TG (n = 1) |
TOTAL (n = 87) |
|
| Belgium | 2 [24,29] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Bulgaria | 1 [24] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Croatia | 2 [25,26] | 5 [25,39-42] | 1 [68] | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| Cyprus | 1 [27] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Czech Republic | 1 [28] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Estonia | 0 | 2 [64,65] | 1 [80] | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Finland | 0 | 0 | 1 [69] | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| France | 2 [34,35] | 2 [53,54] | 1 [73] | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Germany | 1 [24] | 2 [43,66] | 1 [70] | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Greece | 0 | 2 [55,56] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Hungary | 1 [30] | 1 [44] | 2 [71,72] | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Italy | 2 [24,28] | 1 [57] | 3 [74-76] | 1 [84] | 1 [89] | 8 |
| Lithuania | 1 [24] | 1 [44] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Luxembourg | 0 | 1 [45] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Netherlands | 1 [38] | 0 | 0 | 3 [81-83] | 0 | 4 |
| Poland | 1 [24] | 1 [58] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Portugal | 1 [24] | 0 | 1 [77] | 2 [87,88] | 0 | 4 |
| Romania | 2 [24,28] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Slovakia | 2 [24,28] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Slovenia | 3 [23,24,28] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Spain | 4 [24,28,36,37] | 5 [59-63] | 3 [67,78,79] | 2 [36,85] | 0 | 14 |
| Sweden | 1 [24] | 1 [46] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| United Kingdom | 4 [24,31-33] | 6 [47-52] | 0 | 1 [86] | 0 | 11 |
| Countries with datad | 19 | 13 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 23 |
EEA: European Economic Area; EU: European Union; MSM: men who have sex with men; PWID: people who inject drugs; SW: sex workers; TG: transgender people.
a One MSM study [23] was excluded from the plots because of a high risk of bias (summary bias score = 0).
b This number includes studies of people belonging to multiple (overlapping) risk groups (five such studies for PWID [39,47,61,62,66], four for prisoners [68,72,73,79], and seven for sex workers [81,82,84-88]).
c One PWID study [66] was excluded from the forest plots because the original dataset was reported in another study [43]. It was kept in the overview table here and the results description because it reported prevalence data for a different population sub-group (migrant PWID vs non-migrant PWID) which was not reported in the original study [43]. d No peer-reviewed published studies were identified from eight of the 30 EU/EEA countries and the United Kingdom (Austria, Denmark, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Malta and Norway).