HIV Scotland
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promoting positive change
21 September 2011
During the first six months of 2011, NHS Scotland laboratories reported positive HIV-antibody test results for 187 individuals not previously recorded as HIV-positive
28 August 2011
The number of people in Devon and Cornwall who are HIV positive has risen, according to the Health Protection Agency (HPA).
26 August 2011
Young people, particularly women, aged under 25, are the group most at risk of being diagnosed with an STI. Rectal gonorrhoea in men, a marker of unprotected anal intercourse, reached the highest proportion (24%) recorded in the past ten years.
9 August 2011
Drug-related deaths in 2010 fell to 485 – a drop of 60 from the 2009 figure of 545 and down from the all-time recorded high of 574 in 2008. However, statisticians say it is too soon to tell whether this is a reversal of the long-term trend of increasing drug related deaths.
4 August 2011
About 50,000 adults a year are being infected with HIV in the US, a new estimate by the country’s Centers for Disease Control (CDC) revealed today in an article in the open-access journal PLoS One. However, this unchanging incidence conceals large increases in the new infection rate in young people, gay men, black men, and particularly the group including all those categories – young, black, gay men.
31 March 2011
Scotland's death toll from drugs could be far higher than official figures show, a doctor has warned.
18 February 2011
NAT (National AIDS Trust) today launches its fourth survey ’HIV: Public Knowledge and Attitudes 2010’, conducted by Ipsos MORI amongst adults aged 16+ in Great Britain.
7 February 2011
Sex and drug use driving HCV epidemic among HIV-positive gay men in Australia; other study shows small epidemic in US.
6 January 2011
UK Gay Men’s Sex Survey: new data on age, strategic positioning, condom failure and HIV testing.
16 June 2010
A cumulative total of up to 5,637 people in Ireland were infected with HIV by the end of 2009. Over the year, there was a surge in the number of newly diagnosed cases among men who have sex with men.