Montevideo.- Uruguay recorded 739 new HIV infection diagnoses last year, 93 cases fewer than in 2024, according to a report released this Wednesday by the Ministry of Public Health.
It is estimated that 17,000 people are living with HIV in Uruguay, although 16,118 are aware of their serological status (94.8%), indicated the report presented by the health ministry in the framework of the National HIV Response Day.
The report states that 104 people died from causes linked to HIV/AIDS in 2025, which represents a mortality rate of 3 per 100,000 inhabitants.
Taking biological sex into account, men represent 70.6% of new diagnoses over the last five years. In 2025, 526 were men and 213 were women, and among the deceased, there were 64 men and 40 women.
In addition, the age group with the highest incidence was that between 25 and 44 years old, with a rate of 38.95 per 100,000 inhabitants, and the median age of new diagnoses was 38 years.
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Geographically, the highest rates of new cases were recorded in the departments (provinces) of Flores, Montevideo, Maldonado, Salto, Artigas, and Soriano.
99.68% of the reported cases were through sexual transmission, although one case of “vertical pregnancy-birth” transmission was reported. Regarding this last point, the ministry highlighted that in the last five years, vertical transmission has remained below 2%.
In total, health providers and laboratories performed 555,110 HIV tests and the positivity rate stood at 0.13%.
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As of December 2025, 13,033 people were in treatment, which represented 80.86% of those diagnosed.
