HIV infections in Victoria, Australia's second-most-populous state, may climb 74 percent over the next seven years unless rising rates of unprotected sex in Melbourne are reversed, researchers said. New HIV cases among gay and bisexual men in Queensland state may jump 20 percent by 2015, according to mathematical modeling by the University of New South Wales using surveys and disease patterns.
The forecast highlights the consequences of unprotected sex that has fueled a resurgence of the AIDS-causing virus in the U.S., U.K. and other developed nations during the past decade. The discovery in the mid-1990s of new antiretroviral drugs, known as protease inhibitors, has enabled people to live with HIV for years -- if not decades -- longer than they could before.
[sad, just sad]
The forecast highlights the consequences of unprotected sex that has fueled a resurgence of the AIDS-causing virus in the U.S., U.K. and other developed nations during the past decade. The discovery in the mid-1990s of new antiretroviral drugs, known as protease inhibitors, has enabled people to live with HIV for years -- if not decades -- longer than they could before.
[sad, just sad]
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