"Don't want to mislead anybody."

Yet your percentage is nevertheless misleading.

Not because there is a 3 or a 4 at the end, but because 250 people being infected with HIV a year is still a significant number.

It is a small enough number that the networking that royston speaks of has not come into play yet.

And if the population of England were infinite then we could probably predict a consistent rise of 250 per year for ever for that reason.

However, this is not the case.

The pool has gradually become more polluted, and inevitably, the numbers have started to rise, and the rate of that rise has been comparatively pretty dramatic.

If it increases by another 500% then we will have in excess of 6,000 UK acquired heterosexual infections a year.

As long as 60% of teenagers continue to have unprotected sex, and as long as the public remains ignorant about sexual health, there is no reason to believe that there will be any decrease or reversal of this recent trend.

Finally, it is misleading to compare homosexuals to the entire population of Britain.

They are a single demographic WITHIN society, so should be compared to other demographics within society.

A good place to start would be adolescent girls and young women, who make up about 3 and a half millon each.