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2022 saw the top ever uptake of HIV testing among gay, double attraction, and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM), with diagnoses in this group continuing to fall, according to the latest HIV surveillance update for the UK. However, the data shows labor must still be done to improve testing uptake, particularly among ethnic minorities and women.

The data for England – published by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) – provides an overview of trends in relation to HIV testing, HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP), modern HIV diagnoses, late diagnoses, and the care outcomes for people accessing HIV services.

Regular HIV testing is vital to help prohibit new infections while also ensuring timely access to treatment that saves lives and prevents the virus being passed on.

The latest data highlights:

• HIV diagnoses carry on to fall in GBMSM but have risen in heterosexual adults and particularly in women and ethnic minority groups
• 2022 saw the highest ever uptake of HIV testing among GBMSM in sexual health services (SHSs) but with smaller increases in other groups
• the number of people taking PrEP ro
  

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

  HIV incidence in lgbtq+ and bisexual men in the UK has fallen to such an extent that new diagnoses among heterosexuals exceeded those in homosexual 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 collective organisations, including aidsmap.com), estimates that there were 669 unused HIV infections in gay and fluid men in 2021.

  In 2011 there had been about 3000 infections. Cambiano and colleagues estimate that this 75% descend in a decade will continue if current prevention measures are maintained, foremost to new cases of HIV in gay and double attraction men becoming unique by 2040.

  This is new infections, not diagnoses. During 2020, 976 gay or bisexual men tested HIV positive and 1067 heterosexuals. But this includes people diagnosed with a low CD4 compute who may include had HIV for years and people who caught it outside the UK. In fact, while substantial falls in diagnoses in lgbtq+ men were first reported in 2016, epidemiolog

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  The Edward Carpenter Community is a network of men who love men, devoted to community-building, creativity, personal expansion, friendship and fun. We organise one-week residential retreats – sometimes known as gay men’s weeks – as well as weekend events and one-day workshops at locations around the UK. We also offer additional support and friendship through local groups, heart circles and informal friendship networks.

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