The BBC report on the rise in new HIV infections thus:
As an aside, this rise in HIV amongst African men is something that was reported quite some time ago as HIV infected Africans along with tuberculosis infected East Europeans have been coming to the UK for the NHS's famed free at the point of use treatment. The UK is a rich country, we can afford it - or so we were told; can we?
'A doubling of new HIV infections in the UK in the past decade is leading experts to tell GPs to offer testing to all adult male patients in some areas.I know that the figures in the first section are for 2010 and the second for 2009 but if 2,000 is a third of new infections in 2009 then how can total new infections in 2010 not be around 6,000 but 3,800? Something is not quite right here. Does anyone at the BBC check figures or are they all innumerate arts and social 'sciences' graduates?
Health Protection Agency data shows new UK-acquired cases rose from just under 2,000 in 2001 to nearly 3,800 in 2010.
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In 2009, more than 2,000 black Africans were diagnosed with an HIV infection; one-third of all new diagnoses in the UK.'
As an aside, this rise in HIV amongst African men is something that was reported quite some time ago as HIV infected Africans along with tuberculosis infected East Europeans have been coming to the UK for the NHS's famed free at the point of use treatment. The UK is a rich country, we can afford it - or so we were told; can we?
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That isn't the only thing that jumps out of that article...read the first 10 sentences/paragraphs and the odd phrase "Men who have sex with men" is repeated 4 or 5 times. Had it been used only once and/or the use of 'gay' or 'homosexual men' used I wouldn't have noticed.
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