A reduced level of New Zealand gay and bisexual HIV diagnoses reported in 2006 has been maintained for 2007, figures released today by the AIDS Epidemiology Group indicate.
156 new HIV diagnoses were recorded in 2007, with 71 of these being men who were infected through sex with another man.
The majority of the diagnoses (75%) were infections that were reported to have occurred in New Zealand. The average age of diagnosis was 41, with most of the men being European (72%), and living in the North Island (87%), mostly in Auckland.
"Diagnoses among gay and bisexual men reached a peak in 2005, and came down in 2006, which was encouraging," says Eamonn Smythe, Acting Executive Director of the New Zealand AIDS Foundation.
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> The AIDS Epidemiology Group has
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> over the level of undiagnosed HIV
Rate of new infections.
Rate of new infections isn't the same as the level of diagnoses.
What's the rate of new infections?...