Newly HIV 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)

201220132014 2015 20162017 2018 2019 2020 202120222023
Number of newly HIV diagnoses157200247227202241311258199237328253
Rates per 100,000 population2.12.73.53.22.93.54.63.93.03.65.03.9
Males123161201194169218276217168205215206
Rates per 100,000 population3.44.55.85.75.06.68.56.85.36.56.96.6
Females3439463333233541313211347
Rates per 100,000 population0.91.01.30,.90.90.71.01.20.90.93.41.4
By age groups
<15 years352103315361
15-19 years778310644643
20-24 years152525212324302320212130
25-29 years344858554846573939403538
30-39 years6368988973107124105688213388
40-49 years213345384146595346539658
>=50 years141411201615323317323335
Transmission mode (number of cases)
Injecting drug use403348292233343715141824
Males292843231731312913121622
Females1155652382222
% injecting drug use25.516.519.412.810.913.710.914.37.55.95.59.5
Sex between men597298111961201701229611010698
Heterosexual contact5870938684851049884110199130
Males 354958605666736556809086
Females2321352628193133283010944
Mother-to-child transmission051103314351
Source: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Ministry of Health, NFP, NCPHA.