Specialists: Young people think HIV has a cure
Scientists found that HIV infection levels are rising among young people because they think HIV has a cure.
Dr Veerakathy Harindra says a quarter of his young HIV patients wrongly believe a cure has already been found.
This leads them to fail to take adequate precautions to prevent the spread of the virus, he said.
The Terrence Higgins Trust says the number of HIV infections has more than doubled in the last six years.
Dr Harindra, director at Portsmouth’s genito-urinary medicine (GUM) clinic, says between 20% and 25% of the young people he sees believe they can be cured of HIV.
Drug treatments which help manage HIV have led some people to wrongly believe it can actually be cured altogether, he says.
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