CROI 2022: What led to the fall in HIV cases in UK gay men?

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Different prevention measures worked together, model suggests.

HIV incidence in gay and bisexual men in the UK has fallen to such an extent that new diagnoses among heterosexuals exceeded those in gay and bisexual men for the first time in a decade in 2020.

A poster presented at this week’s Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2022) by Dr Valentina Cambiano and colleagues from University College London (with input from the UK Health Security Agency and community organisations, including aidsmap.com), estimates that there were 669 new HIV infections in gay and bisexual men in 2021.

Read the full story at Aidsmap.

 

 All Aidsmap reports from CROI 2022.

 

Source : Aidsmap

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