AIDS epidemic update December 2005

(...)"Infections in several large Western Europe cities are reflecting a revival of risky sexual behaviour. For example, a longitudinal study at a sexually transmitted infection clinic in Rome, Italy, found a dramatic rise in new HIV infections. Cumulative incidence in 2000-2003 was twice as high as for 1984-1995 and much higher than for 1996-1999".

(...) "The most prominent recent trends in the rest of Western Europe are the steadily growing proportion of newly diagnosed HIV infections that are due to unsafe heterosexual intercourse, and the increasing proportion of women among new HIV cases".