Record numbers of gay and bisexual men were diagnosed with HIV in New Zealand last year, new statistics show, it’s been reported this week.
The AIDS Epidemiology Group at the University of Otago found 90 new infections of the virus which can lead to AIDS among gay and bisexual men in 2010.
That contrasted with record low rates of new infections among heterosexuals, who accounted for just 35 of the 149 new HIV diagnoses made through antibody testing.
One child - born in 2006 - was diagnosed with HIV contracted from their mother in 2010.
A further 39 people were diagnosed with AIDS. Of those, twenty-five were men infected through sex with other men, 11 through heterosexual sex, one through injecting drugs, and two where the means of infection was unknown.
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