DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.es.2023.28.48.2300642 ISSN: 1560-7917

HIV diagnoses among people born in Ukraine reported by EU/EEA countries in 2022: impact on regional HIV trends and implications for healthcare planning

Juliana Reyes-Urueña, Gaetano Marrone, Teymur Noori, Giorgi Kuchukhidze, Violetta Martsynovska, Larysa Hetman, Anton Basenko, Stela Bivol, Marieke J van der Werf, Anastasia Pharris,
  • Virology
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Epidemiology
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Following Russia’s invasion in 2022, over 4.1 million Ukrainians sought refuge in the EU/EEA. We assessed how this impacted HIV case reporting by EU/EEA countries. Ukrainian refugees constituted 10.2% (n = 2,338) of all 2022 HIV diagnoses, a 10-fold increase from 2021. Of these, 9.3% (n = 217) were new diagnoses, 58.5% (n = 1,368) were previously identified; 32.2% had unknown status. Displacement of Ukrainians has partly contributed to increasing HIV diagnoses in EU/EEA countries in 2022, highlighting the importance of prevention, testing and care.

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