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One in five ‘heterosexual’ men in the UK caught their HIV from another man

By J Pope
In Gay Lesbian & Bisexual Health, HIV, LGBTIQ+ issues, Multicultural communities, Safer sex
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nam/aidsmap, 18 February 2017 A genetic analysis of a large database of people with HIV in the UK in care shows that 18% of men with HIV who claim to be exclusively heterosexual in fact belong to clusters of linked infections that consist only of men. This provides a minimum figure for the proportion of men with HIV in the UK who are what the researchers call non-disclosed MSM (ndMSM). These...

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Nearly two-thirds of European HIV cases are now in Russia

By J Pope
In HIV
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aidsmap, 09 January 2017 The annual number of new cases of HIV increased by at least 8% in 2015 in the European region, and by 60% in the last decade. A continued increase in new diagnoses in Russia was responsible for most of the increase. In 2015, 64% of European-region new cases were in Russia. The UK still reported by far the largest number of new cases of HIV of any country in western Europe...

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