Straight Sex HIV Explosion

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Straight Sex HIV Explosion

Sunday Mercury (United Kingdom) (08.14.01)
Gerri Peev; Paul Malley

Shocking new statistics reveal that the number of heterosexuals who have contracted HIV in Britain has nearly doubled in the last four years. The new figures, announced by Health Minister Yvette Cooper, show a trend that will probably continue. The overall rate of HIV infection is expected to climb by 50 percent by the year 2003, with between 20,800 and 29,000 individuals infected.

Dr. Jonathan Ross of Birmingham University said, "The campaigns about the risk of HIV in the late 1980s had a huge impact on people's sexual behavior. But in the last three to four years, there has been a marked increase in these diseases. People are not being as careful as they were before. The problem is that people who saw the original campaigns about HIV are now in their 30s and 40s. Today's younger generation do not remember it."
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