Newly AIDS diagnoses in Bulgaria (incl. infected through injecting drug use) over the period 2012 – 2023

Prevalence of psychoactive substance use
Prevalence of medication use
Prevalence of drug use
Drug Prevention
Treatment Supply
Treatment Demand
Health consequences
Harm reduction
Drug-related crimes
Drug market
Drug use and prison
Monitoring of publications
Attitudes to legal framework changes

Database 1990 – 2023 (.xlsx)

20122013 2014 2015 20162017 2018 2019 2020 2021 20222023
Number of AIDS diagnoses657164454249576843385466
Rates per 100,000 population0.91.00.90.60.60.70.81.00.60.50.81.0
Males475352393939485632354551
Rates per 100,000 population1.31.51.51.11.11.11.41.60.91.01.41.6
Females1818126310921113915
Rates per 100,000 population0.50.50.30.20.10.30.20.30.30.10.30.4
Transmission mode (number of cases)
Injecting drug use392926111417201859
Males332524111312191438
Females6420151421
% injecting drug use60.040.840.624.433.334.735.126.511.623.7
Sex between men812912111517281618
Heterosexual contact15202522171717222011
Males 512171615121014129
Females10886257882
Mother-to-child transmission0300003020
AIDS-related deaths16141389109171613117
Source: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), NFP, NCPHA