Most UK women evade HIV tests

ALMOST three-quarters of British women have never been tested for HIV, with most observant no need for them, a new check has revealed. A sum of 73 per cent were not checked for HIV, whilst 62 per cent thought HIV and AIDS do not affect their community. Some 82 per cent of British women had sex but utilizing a condom, with 63 per cent observant it was since they were in an disdainful ADVERTISEMENTrelationship.Meanwhile, 58 per cent of women do not have annual HIV tests since they do not cruise themselves at risk. The poll, for the MAC AIDS Fund, explored the reasons because women do not make use of condoms.Of those not utilizing them, 35 per cent pronounced they devoted their partner was not HIV positive, 35 per cent were utilizing an additional form of contraception and twenty-seven per cent pronounced they had a "no risk" perspective to intimately transmitted infections.In 2008, roughly 7,300 people were diagnosed with HIV in the UK, roughly 3 times the series a decade before.Singers Lady GaGa and Cyndi Lauper are subsidy MACs Viva Glam debate to await people with HIV and AIDS.Nancy Mahon, senior manager executive of the MAC AIDS Fund, said: "HIV/AIDS is a wordless torpedo between women in the UK and the time is right away to receptive to advice the warning that the risk is real. The progressing we can diagnose and provide HIV, the improved the peculiarity and length of those peoples lives."The consult insights are a wake-up call that we need to urge HIV recognition and entrance to impediment methods for women in the UK. While HIV is 100 per cent preventable, the not curable."