Newly AIDS diagnoses in Bulgaria (incl. infected through injecting drug use) over the period 2012 – 2024

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 – 2024 (.xlsx)

20122013 2014 2015 20162017 2018 2019 2020 2021 202220232024
Number of AIDS diagnoses65716445424957684338546665
Rates per 100,000 population0.91.00.90.60.60.70.81.00.60.50.81.01.0
Males47535239393948563235455149
Rates per 100,000 population1.31.51.51.11.11.11.41.60.91.01.41.61.6
Females181812631092111391516
Rates per 100,000 population0.50.50.30.20.10.30.20.30.30.10.30.40.5
Transmission mode (number of cases)
Injecting drug use392926111417201859101310
Males332524111312191438
Females6420151421
% injecting drug use60.040.840.624.433.334.735.126.511.623.718.519.715.4
Sex between men812912111517281618
Heterosexual contact15202522171717222011
Males 512171615121014129
Females10886257882
Mother-to-child transmission0300003020
AIDS-related deaths161413891091716131176
Source: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), NFP, NCPHA