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Straight people’s HIV rates hold steady as gay & bi men’s drops
According to the Kirby Institute’s 2018 surveillance report on HIV, viral hepatitis, and sexually transmissible infections in Australia, the HIV infection rate in the country has hit an 18-year low.
“It’s the lowest number we’ve seen in 18 years,” said professor Rebecca Guy, the head of the Kirby institute’s Surveillance, Evaluation, and Research Program to the Sunday Morning Herald.
The country has seen only 835 new cases of HIV transmission in the previous year, marking a 23% decline over the last...
