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by masonic 3404 days ago
This is sloppy reporting:

"In the space of 12 months, the number of gay men in London being diagnosed with HIV had dropped by 40%. Across England it was down by a third."

The New Scientist article they link to has it correct -- this is a drop in reported new infections, not a drop in infected persons. It still hasn't been corrected.

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being diagnosed, as in new diagnoses.