Half of all new HIV diagnoses in gay men in Brighton involve recent infections, according to a study published in the November edition of AIDS. Brighton has a large population of gay men and investigators combined clinical information with data obtained from enhanced serological testing to determine how many of the men recently diagnosed with HIV had been also recently infected with the virus.
Recent diagnosis or recent infection?
Conventional methods for assessing whether someone newly diagnosed with HIV infection has been recently infected or has been living with undiagnosed HIV for longer than six months are currently imperfect.
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