At-Risk Populations

HIV Risk Remains High Among Homosexual and Bisexual Men

Published in AIDS Weekly, December 18th, 2000

The level of undiagnosed HIV-1 infection among homosexual and bisexual men did not fall between 1993 and 1998, indicating a high level of continuing transmission, according to a study in the November 23, 2000, issue of British Medical Journal.

Samples from over 32,000 homosexual and bisexual men, attending 15 genitourinary clinics in England and Wales with sexually transmitted infections, were tested for HIV-1 infection. In London, the level of HIV-1 declined among men attending with an acute sexually transmitted infection, such as gonorrhoea and chlamydia, from 16.5% in 1993 to 9% in 1998: an average decrease of 9% a year.

However, when...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2000-12-18)

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