Research and analysis

Shooting Up: infections among people who inject drugs in the UK

This report describes the extent of infections and injecting-related harms among people who inject drugs (PWID) in the United Kingdom.

• From: UK Health Security Agency
• Published: 1 November 2013
• Last updated: 19 February 2026
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  1. 19 February 2026

     Amended text referring to HIV prevalence in Scotland in data tables (Table 3c) and slide set (slide 14) for data to end of 2021.

  2. 22 March 2023

     Updated report, data tables, slide set and infographic with data to end of 2021.

  3. 8 February 2022

     Added December 2021 report, data tables and links to the slide set and infographic.

  4. 27 January 2021

     Added December 2020 update report, data tables and links to the slide set and infographic.

  5. 17 December 2019

     Added December 2019 update report, data tables and briefing documents and added a link to the slide set and infographic.

  6. 19 November 2018

     Added Shooting Up November 2018 update report; data tables; briefing; and added link to the slide set and infographic under the Details section.

  7. 29 November 2017

     Added Shooting up November 2017 update report; data tables; briefing; and added link to the slide set and infographic under Details section.

  8. 25 November 2016

     Added Shooting Up slideset November 2016 update.

  9. 15 November 2016

     Added Shooting up November 2016 update, data tables, infographic and briefing.

  10. 11 November 2015

      Added: Shooting Up November 2015 update: infections among people who inject drugs in the UK; data tables accompanying report; info-graphic; slide set; briefing for directors of public health, commissioners and service providers in England.

  11. 5 November 2014

      The following have been added; Infections among people who inject drugs in the UK (November 2014 update); Data tables accompanying report; Info-graphic; Slide set; Briefing for directors of public health, commissioners and service providers in England

  12. 1 November 2013

      First published.

Documents

Shooting Up: infections and other injecting-related harms among people who inject drugs in the UK, data to end of 2021

HTML

Shooting Up: data tables accompanying the report, data to end of 2021

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 117 KB

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Details

The annual Shooting Up report provides an overview of infections and injecting-related harms among people who inject drugs (PWID) in the UK.

Download Shooting Up slide set and infographic with data to end of 2021 for presentational use.

Previous reports are available to download from the UK Government Web Archive.