HIV & AIDS in the UK- Facts & Myths

Many people think, because they have been hearing about the AIDS epidemic for so many years, that it's not a problem - they've stopped listening. People seem to assume that the informational campaigns and sex education has worked, and that HIV is only really a danger to high-risk groups of the population, and less of a danger now than in the past.

In its early stages, the epidemic primarily affected gay men, and then injecting drug users and people who had been given infected blood products in hospitals. Injecting drug users, particularly, were assumed to be at risk from HIV. People formed the opinion that these were the sections of the population which were primarily at risk, and that opinion seems to have lasted. More recently, the media has focused on the severe epidemic in Africa, and on HIV positive immigrants entering the UK. Many people seem to think that they're not at risk from HIV - which is why new infections continue to occur.

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