THT launches "1 in 8" Campaign...

review date:   Friday, 19 May 2006 photos & words by:   Sam Milford [ intro | page 1 ]

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Anastasia and Eric set out on a cold spring day to help mark the launch of the Terrence Higgins Trust's new campaign promoting safe sex for gay men... new posters, beer mats, condom packs, inserts, t-shirts, leaflets, ads in the local press announce some of the facts from a recent survey on HIV... which are quite startling.

An anonymous saliva/swab test carried out on gay and bisexual men in February 2004 in Brighton & Hove gay venues found very similar results to surveys carried out on the scene in London and Manchester:

13.7% had HIV (between 1 in 7 and 1 in 8 men in Brighton & Hove's gay venues)
33% of those with HIV did not know they had it
48.9% of all negative men had had unsafe sex within the last year.

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