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Monday, July 14, 2014

World Health Organisation recommends that all gay men should take antiretroviral medicine to halt HIV epidemic

World Health Organisation recommends that all gay men should take antiretroviral medicine to halt HIV epidemic
The World Health Organisation has announced for the first time that all men who have sex with men should take antiretroviral drugs, in a bid to try and contain the growing rates of HIV in gay communities around the world. ...Speaking after the release of the report, Gottfried Hirnschall, who heads WHO’s HIV department, said that they were seeing an “exploding epidemic” when it came to HIV rates in the gay community around the world. 



WHO warns HIV 'exploding' among gay men, urges preventive drugs
"We are seeing exploding epidemics," warned Gottfried Hirnschall, who heads WHO's HIV department. Infection rates are rising again among men who have sex with men -- the group at the epicentre of AIDS pandemic when it first emerged 33 years ago, he told reporters in Geneva. 

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