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Graph seems to be comparing 6 months of 2018 with full years before that which would vastly overstate the decline.

This is misleading to the point that I would consider this lying to the audience. It's just wrong to convey the data in this way. The note below the graph does not make this OK.

If anybody is interested in the actual data, I think the data is pulled from "NSW HIV Surveillance Data Reports": https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/endinghiv/Pages/tools-and-data...

Yep, look at Figure 1: https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/endinghiv/Publications/q2-2018...

The trend seems to be downward, but it's more like ~10% in the past couple years than a step change.

Thanks, I overlooked that myself, and is definitely misleading.

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