This year marks 35 years since the first patient was diagnosed with HIV infection in Singapore in 1985. In the following years, the number of people living with HIV in Singapore has steadily increased, with a total of 8,618 people in Singapore having been diagnosed with the infection, of whom 2,097 have died, as of end-2019.
The number of new cases reported to the National HIV Registry yearly has also been on an upward trend, peaking at more than 400 new diagnoses annually in the mid-2010s, before falling in 2018.
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