NHS Sexual Health Departments are like any other organisation, they are ddtecaeid to their own survival, and want growing numbers of patients to grow their departments. Doctors want more sick people. Yeah right. As posted before, the back door, not the back passage, is behind the apparent increase in the number of AIDS cases doubling'. Learn to read. The doubling of HIV (not AIDS) is in UK-acquired cases which has risen to 3,800. The total number of people in the uk with HIV peaked at 8000 in 2005 but has been declining since then to about 6,000 in 2010.The number of people with AIDS has been around 1000/500 a year since 1998. 0 likes