Currently, the UK and the US recommend that sexually active gay men take annual HIV tests. Despite this a 2008 Sigma research survey showed that amongst those men who had sex with another man in the previous year, 28.4% had never had an HIV test.
US researchers have now suggested that sexually active gay men should be tested for HIV every three to six months, after their investigations showed that nearly one in ten men who believed themselves to be HIV-negative did in fact have HIV.
One of the surprising facts in this study, however, was that there was a higher percentage of HIV infection amongst those who reported no unprotected sex in the last year than in those who did not.
All this goes to show, perhaps unsurprisingly, that we are not always in the best position to gauge whether we should be having another test – or whether the sex we are having carries a risk of HIV infection.
So given that all of us here have received a positive result, we would like to know your opinions on testing in the UK for gay men.
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This article was last reviewed on 12/7/2012 by Allan Latty
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