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HIV (which stands for 'Human Immunodeficiency Virus') is the germ which can cause AIDS – a potentially lethal disease. AIDS attacks the body’s immune system, making the affected person very vulnerable to all sorts of infections.
In 2014, there are thought to be almost 100,000 people with HIV living in the United Kingdom. Many of them are heterosexual and have caught the infection through ordinary (vaginal) intercourse. However, it is believed that about 41,000 of the total are
gay men. Another 32,000 HIV-positive people were born in Africa, and are thought to have acquired the virus through 'straight' (vaginal) intercourse.
And if you’re thinking of having sex (whether 'straight' or gay) while abroad, please take note of the fact that in some countries – particularly those south of the Sahara – HIV rates are very high. In South Africa, 11 per cent of the population are HIV-positive.
A very small number of British HIV sufferers have been intra-venous drug users, and caught the virus from contaminated needles.
A further small group of people got the virus through receiving infected blood transfusions overseas. And in addition, about 1,200 British haemophiliacs caught HIV from contaminated blood products in the period 1978 to 1985. About 400 of them are still
alive. Public Health England estimates that in the UK as a whole, there are currently about 25,000 men and women who have HIV – but who don’t yet know it. So, if you’ve taken a risk, get yourself a test!