High Risk HIV Lifestyles

11 July 2014

According to a World Health Organisation news release today:

■ Women sex workers are 14 times more likely to have HIV than other women.

■ Men who have sex with men are 19 times more likely to have HIV than the general population.

■ Transgender women are almost 50 times more likely to have HIV than other adults.

■ People who inject drugs are 50 times more likely to have HIV than the general population.

■ Modelling estimates that, globally, 20-25 per cent reductions in HIV incidence among men who have sex with men could be achieved through pre-exposure prophylaxis, averting up to 1 million new infections among this group over 10 years.