Keith,

Your response is sleight of hand I'm afraid.

Your comparison is false.

Its like comparing the number of Runs scored by Botham to the number of Goals scored by Beckham and saying that Botham is better cos he got more.

How is it like that?

Because the numbers being compared represent completely different things.

The comparison you need to make to decide whether the proportion of infected hetero's is rising or not, is between the Percentage of infected heteros before and percentage of infected heteros after.

both percentages are found using the formula "number of infected hetero's divided by number of heterosexuals".

You will find that todays percentage is higher than that from 8 years ago.