The London HIV Mortality Review Group has been conducting annual reviews of deaths among people with HIV since 2013.1 In 2020, the National HIV Mortality Review was introduced, formed of a collaboration between the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) and the British HIV Association (BHIVA), to extend the review to the whole of the UK. In 2017, Brighton and Hove became the first Fast Track City in the UK, committing to reaching zero HIV-related deaths by 2030.2 We thus set out to measure how many deaths in people with HIV were potentially preventable in the city.

We included all patients who resided in and received their routine care in Brighton and Hove between 2017 and 2020. Data were collected from clinical records, laboratory results and coroner reports, and were entered into the UKHSA/BHIVA National HIV Mortality Review online tool.3 Cause of death was classified following an independent review of each death by an HIV epidemiologist and two HIV clinicians (as previously described …