Record number of new HIV cases reported in Czechia

Doctors recorded 293 new cases of HIV in the Czech Republic last year, the highest number since monitoring of the disease began and one more than in 2022. Foreign nationals long-term resident in Czechia, excluding war refugees from Ukraine, accounted for nearly 48 percent of cases (140). Almost half of them had already been diagnosed abroad (66) and are continuing treatment in the Czech Republic. The data were provided to ČTK by the National Reference Laboratory (NRL) for HIV/AIDS at the National Institute of Public Health (SZÚ).