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KMID : 1143420220150332364
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Public Health Weekly Report
2022 Volume.15 No. 33 p.2364 ~ p.2369
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HIV/AIDS notifications in the Republic of Korea, 2021
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Kim Ko-Un
Jung Yoon-Hee
Kim Yeon-Ju
Choi Ho-Yong
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Abstract
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The major results of the HIV/AIDS cases reported in 2021 are described in this paper, based on the ‘2021 HIV/AIDS Annual
Report’ published in June 2022.
Newly detected HIV infection was reported as 975 cases in the Republic of Korea in 2021. Among them, 773 cases (79.3%)
were Koreans and 202 cases (20.7%) were foreigners. About 92.0% of all cases (897 cases) were men and 8.0% (78 cases) were women. The proportion of newly detected HIV cases among the 20-49 year old age group was 81.3%: the 20-29 year old age group was 36.1% (352 cases), the 30-39 year old group was 30.1% (293 cases), and the 40-49 year old group was 15.2% (148 cases). In terms of detection facility, 712 cases (73.0%) were detected in clinics or hospitals and 157 cases (16.1%) were detected in public health centers. The most common reason to take HIV test was to confirm the cause of illness (184 cases, 25.3%). Almost all of the cases (99.8%, 532 cases) answered that their route of transmission was a sexual contact. Findings further indicated that new HIV infected cases in 2021 decreased by 20.3% compared to the number of cases in 2019. Report of new HIV cases from public health centers was significantly decreased in 2021 by 57.2% compared to that in 2019. During COVID-19, most of the public health centers had to stop their HIV testing reassigning their manpower to cope with COVID-19 epidemic in the community. Deterioration of the HIV service in most of the public health centers might have resulted in the decrease of HIV detection in the public health centers.
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KEYWORD
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Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), COVID-19
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