Incident HIV infection has fallen rapidly in men who have sex with men in Melbourne, Australia (2013-2017) but not in the newly-arrived Asian-born.

ABSTRACT:

Background

We examined differences in incident HIV infection between newly-arrived Asian-born and other men who have sex with men (MSM) after the introduction of universal HIV treatment guidelines in 2015 and pre-exposure prophylaxis in 2016.

Methods

Clinical, demographic, laboratory and behavioural data on MSM presenting for HIV testing at the Melbourne Sexual Health Centre from July 2013 to June 2017 were extracted. We compared the proportion of newly-arrived (four years or less in Australia), Asian-born and other MSM tested each year who were diagnosed with incident HIV infection (negative test within one year or diagnosis with indeterminate or negative Western Blot).

Results

We analysed 35,743 testing episodes in 12,180 MSM, including 2781 testing episodes in 1047

SUBMITTER: Medland NA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6102820 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature