Key Points

• Second-largest metropolitan area for HIV testing activity, but an average positivity rate indicating the need to better target at-risk populations.

• The number of new HIV diagnoses per million inhabitants remained stable between 2015 and 2017 in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region and decreased slightly in 2018.

• New HIV diagnoses are decreasing among MSM born in France and increasing among those born abroad.

• The number of AIDS cases per million inhabitants has been steadily decreasing since 2010 in the Paca region. In 2018, the proportion of people born in France among AIDS cases decreased, while that of people born abroad increased significantly.