HIV Cases in Canada Increase by Over 30 Percent

Bottles of the drug Truvada, which reduces the risk of contracting HIV, in a file photograph. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

New HIV diagnoses in Canada surged again in 2023, increasing by more than 30 percent from the previous year, according to government data.

Last year, Canada recorded 2,434 new HIV diagnoses, up 35.2 percent from 2022, the data shows. Most cases resulted from exposure through heterosexual contact, at nearly 40 percent, followed closely by male-to-male contact, at 36 percent. Injection drug use was the third most common category of exposure, accounting for 18.2 percent of new cases.