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p>BRITS have been urged to come forward for HIV tests after heterosexual diagnoses of the illness have overtaken those in gay men. It's the first time the cases have shifted in decades and research shows that testing rates have dropped a third.It comes after a new HIV 'super strain' has been detected in with 109 new cases.The new 'super-strain' - called "VB" - was first found in the Netherlands as part of a study that collects samples.Data from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) shows that in England in 2020, half of all new HIV diagnoses were in heterosexuals -...

Most Americans have never been tested for HIV, and less than 30% of those that are most at risk for contracting the virus have been tested in the past year, according to a report from the CDC released Thursday. Released Thursday on National HIV Testing Day, the report, published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, analyzed data from 2016-2017 as said in a statement from the CDC. An estimated 1.1 million people in the U.S. are living with HIV, according to the CDC. Of those living with the virus, 1 in 7 do not know they had HIV. Those...