The Netherlands Drug Situation 2010 - Trimbos-instituut

Of the 168 new AIDS diagnoses in 2009, 6 (3.6%) were among injecting drug users(table 6.2). In the same year, 109 AIDS patients died, among whom were 12 (11%)injecting drug users. Note that these numbers are subject to change due to reportingdelay (Vriend et al., 2010). Up until December 2009, 693 registered AIDS patients (8.6% of the total AIDS diagnoses)belonged to the transmission risk group of injecting drug users. The number ofAIDS cases related to injecting drug use peaked in 1995 (74), but remained below 20cases per year since 1999 (see table 6.1.2). Note that the percentage of IDUs among the total population of AIDS patients (8.6%over all years) is higher than the percentage of IDUs in the total population of HIVpatients (4%), but that the percentage of IDUs among the AIDS deaths is even higher:11% or over since 2005. This indicates that the disease course in injecting drugusers is less favourable than in other risk groups.Table 6.1.2: Number and percentage of recorded AIDS patients, by year of diagnosisand by route of transmissionTransmissiongroupMSMHeterosexualcontactInjectingdrug useBlood(contacts)