Gay HIV test figures treble
THE number of gay and bisexual men asking to be tested for HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases has almost trebled in the Lothians.
New figures have revealed that 388 men attended a specialist clinic at Lauriston Place in 2006/07, compared with only 132 two years previously.
The latest figures show there were 89 new HIV patients in the Lothians in the first nine months of 2007, compared with 99 in the whole of 2006. But it is feared an estimated 40 per cent of gay or bisexual men in the region with HIV do not know they have it.
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