HIV Testing and Treatment Fail to Curb U.K. Gay Infections
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Efforts to reduce HIV transmission among gay and bisexual men in the U.K. over the past decade have failed, according to a study that shows infection rates have remained stable even as testing and treatment increased.
New infections in England and Wales have flat-lined at 2,300 to 2,500 a year, defying an almost four-fold increase in the testing rate and an advance in treatment uptake from 69 percent to 80 percent between 2001 and 2010, researchers wrote in The Lancet Infectious Diseases medical journal today.