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Volume 174: debated on Monday 18 June 1990

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To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish in the Official Report for each health authority in Scotland the number of persons infected with HIV; and if he will separately distinguish these numbers by age.

[holding answer 7 June 1990]: The following table gives a breakdown by health board area of the total number of positive HIV antibody test results in Scotland which have been reported to the communicable diseases (Scotland) unit up to 31 March 1990. Where the total number of results in each board area is under 10, the figure, in accordance with established practice, is not published so as not to jeopardise medical confidentiality.

Health boardNumber of positive results
Argyll and Clyde14
Ayrshire and Arran1
Borders1
Dumfries and Galloway13
Fife26
Forth Valley60
Grampian40
Greater Glasgow278
Highland12
Lanarkshire27
Lothian1,053
OrkneyNil
Shetland1
Tayside233
Western IslesNil
TOTAL (SCOTLAND)1,769
1 Under 10.
The age distribution of results by health board area is not readily available and could not, in any event, be given where the number involved is under 10. The age distribution, where known, of the total number of results is shown in the table.

AgeNumber of positive results
Under 14 years116
15 to 24 years723
25 to 34 years624
35 to 44 years158
Over 45 years44
Not known104

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what is the correlation coefficient between the incidence of HIV infection and the incidence of tuberculosis in Scotland over the period 1980 to 1990.

[holding answer 7 June 1990]: As the respective relevant data on HIV antibody positive results reported to the communicable diseases (Scotland) unit and on the notification of tuberculosis in Scotland are not compatible, any attempt at a correlation coefficient using the data would not be valid. No evidence exists of a correlation in Scotland between the incidence of HIV infection and the incidence of tuberculosis, although tuberculosis has occurred in a small proportion of persons with AIDS.The annual number of positive reports of HIV infection and notifications of tuberculosis in Scotland from 1980 to 1989 inclusive are given in the following table:

HIV positive resultsTuberculosis
198001,138
19812972
19829902
198342829
1984169738
1985314707
1986472756
1987373560
1988197534
19891511540
1 provisional.