Lisa Power, Head of Policy, Terrence Higgins Trust commented:

"No-one can afford to be complacent about HIV, and these figures show that targeting HIV prevention messages to those most at risk of the virus remains the right approach. Gay men and Africans living in the UK are still most at risk of HIV."

"But it's important, too, that we take sexual health seriously, both in the light of the small increase in HIV transmission among heterosexuals in the UK, but more generally in the context of the rapidly rising STI epidemics in the UK."

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