Royston posted:-

""Now to your 8.5% HIV prevalence among 15-44 y/o MSM's. The rest of the sentence from from the HPA report says:

" The prevalence of HIV (both diagnosed and undiagnosed infections) among MSM aged 15-44 was estimated to be 8.5% (range 7.0-10.5%) within London"

In the interest of total honesty, it concludes:

"...3.7% (range 3.1-4.5%) elsewhere in England and Wales and 5.3% (range 4.7-6.1%)overall."

So screw me if you weren't lying yet again. I trusted you on that, I didn't imagine even you would twist a lie out of a simple document like that. You just can't be trusted on anything can you?

So put all that together and you get a figure of 4.7% to 6.1% MSM HIV prevalence in the sexually active age groups which is kind of in the ballpark of the 4% figure that we were all thought was basically realistic - until your prejudices got in the way of whatever common sense you have.""


This is the whole of the HPA comment, out of which you extracted one sentence, to support your erroneous understanding of the issue.

Your figure related to London only, and last time I checked, London and England were not in the thesaurus as synonyms.

The figure for England was pretty much what Royston has said all along.

Stop trying to move imaginary goalposts, and you might even make sense once in a while.

I'm not holding my breath though.