Increased high risk sexual behaviour in homosexual men

EDITOR-Dodds et al began their paper 1 with the statement that the incidence of HIV infection among homosexual men in the United Kingdom is increasing despite efforts to reduce high risk behaviour and supported the statement of increasing incidence by referencing a report from the Public Health Laboratory Service. 2 This report, which featured national surveillance data on HIV infection acquired through sex between men, does, however, not suggest that the incidence in homosexual men is rising. Recent health promotion campaigns have encouraged men who have unprotected anal intercourse to undergo HIV testing and reach agreements to have unprotected anal intercourse only with men of the same HIV status as themselves, as one method among many (including the use of condoms, reducing numbers of partners, and safer sexual practices) of reducing the transmission of HIV.