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Facts & figures 2015 2014 2013
Consultations in 2015  34.446 37.390 38.365
HIV  19% 18% 18%
STD  7% 4% 4%
Pre-travel 50% 46% 46%
Helpcenter 5% 6% 5%
Post-travel, pediatrics 19% 17% 17%
Radiology investigations  2.869 3.206 3.837
Travel medicine and tropical diseases
People visited for travel advice and vaccinations  17.085 17.618 17.747
Administered vaccinations  34.711 38.604 35.336
Unique visitors on travel medicine website 247.313 251.068 213.457
Calls to the travel phone 7.300 5.700 8.000
People returning from the South who came to our clinic with medical symptoms 6.687 6.362 6.400

The most common diseases

  1. Diarrhoea  21 %
  2. Malaria 11%
  3. Respiratory infection 5%
  4. Dengue and Chikungunya 6%
  5. Schistosomiasis   4%

Top 5 vaccinations

  1. Yellow fever (53%)
  2. Hepatitis A (52%)
  3. Polio (39%)
  4. Typhoid (37%)
  5. Tetanus + diphteria (29%)
Facts & figures 2015 2014 2013
Central Laboratory for Clinical Biology
Analyses 546.942 analyses for 32.841 patients  595.373 analyses for 33.260 patients 600.000 analyses for 30.917 patients
Analyses as National Reference Centre for the diagnostis of infectious and tropical diseases 125.837 130.497 122.154
Aids Reference Centre
Regularly follow-up patients 2.725 2.591 2.447
Average age 46 45 45
Nationality Europe & North America 70%
Asia 3%
Africa 23%
Latin America 3%
Belgian 56%
Africa 27%
Other 17%
Belgian 57%
Africa 26%
Other 17%
Gender ratio Men 74% – Women 26% Men 74% – Women 26% Men 73% – Women 27%
Newly registered hiv-patients 223 197 257
National HIV/STD Reference Laboratory
New cases of HIV 349 290 352
Helpcenter
1380 visitors 1.428 1.638 1.380
Priority target groups MSM: 503 *
SAM: 192 **
People younger than 25: 346
MSM: 529 *
SAM: 268 **
People younger than 25:  385
MSM: 474 *
SAM: 234 **
People younger than 25: 358
HIV tests performed 1.137 1.422 1.227
newly diagnosed HIV infections 16 18 26
Swab2Know
Collected oral fluid tests 1.187 1.061 904
Newly diagnosed HIV infections 9 14 12
Tropical diseases ward at UZA
Patients admitted in the Tropical Disease Ward 228 196 170
*MSM: Men who have sex with men
** SAM: Sub-Saharan African Migrants