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Thread #153828   Message #3606964
Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
04-Mar-14 - 02:59 AM
Thread Name: BS: Discussion of HIV transmission.
Subject: RE: BS: Discussion of HIV transmission.
Jack, from the latest UK report.
http://www.hpa.org.uk/webc/HPAwebFile/HPAweb_C/1317140300680


"People who inject drugs and other groups.

The number of infections acquired through injecting drug use and through other routes has
remained low (Figure 7).After adjusting for missing data, 120 new HIV diagnoses in 2012 were
infections acquired through injecting drug use and 110 through other means such as mother-to-child transmission and through exposure to contaminated blood products abroad. In 2012, 52%
of new diagnoses among people who inject drugs were among people born abroad. "