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My post was downvoted. Here's where the numbers are: https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/fact-sheet

It says:

New HIV infections have been reduced by 52% since the peak in 1997.

    In 2020, around 1.5 million [1.0 million–2.0 million] people were newly infected with HIV, compared to 3.0 million [2.1 million–4.2 million] people in 1997.
    Women and girls accounted for 50% of all new infections in 2020.

The assertion that 86% of new infections are in the gay community is false

I'm gay, and I downvoted you. Obviously transmission rates are very different around the world, but I'll just speak for the US: in the US the majority of new HIV infections are still men who have sex with men, with 66% of all cases and 81% of all men (and gay men make up 5-10% of men): https://www.hiv.gov/hiv-basics/overview/data-and-trends/stat...

Heck, the reason I'm on PrEP, and the reason virtually every other sexually active, non-long-term-monogamous gay man I know is also on PrEP, is because I know my risk of HIV infection is an order of magnitude more than straight men.

Gay and bisexual men account for 66% of new HIV infections in the US, according to the CDC.

It's obviously different globally, where homophobia and prostitution mean different groups are vulnerable to HIV.

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