UK third in European HIV/Aids table

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There were 8,925 newly diagnosed cases in the country last year - almost 149 cases per million inhabitants compared with an EU average of 67 cases per million. Ireland recorded 337 new cases last year - a rate of 80 cases per million residents.

The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), announced the latest figures in Tallin, Estonia, where HIV/Aids rates are by far the highest in the EU, at an average 504 reported new cases per million inhabitants last year.

ECDC director Zsuzsanna Jakab said the organisation estimated the true European figures to be much higher - because experts believed almost one third of people living with HIV in Europe were unaware they were infected.

"These people are less likely to take precautions against transmitting the virus, and are also unable to access treatment, and addressing this hidden epidemic is a priority for the ECDC," she said.

HIV/Aids cases in the wider Europe - 53 countries in the World Health Organisation's "European region" - have doubled in six years, the latest figures show.

But that contrasts with the global picture, following revised global figures reducing estimates of infection rates to 33.2 million people compared with about 39 million last year.

Across the 53 European nations, which embrace parts of Asia, the average rate of new HIV diagnosis is about 111 per million inhabitants.

In raw figures the number of newly diagnosed cases reported in the UK last year is by far the highest at 8,925 followed by 5,750 in France and 2,718 in Germany. But as a proportion of population, the picture changes, with Estonia's 668 new cases in 2006 translating into an average 504 per million residents.

The lowest rate in the latest survey - which does not include figures from Italy and Spain - is in Slovakia, where 27 recorded new HIV/AIDs cases last year translates into just 5 cases per million inhabitants.