Health reassurance Agency (HPA) scientists have found that HIV infections diagnosed in the over 50s have more than doubled over a period of seven years. The findings published online in the journal AIDS* and presented at the International AIDS seminar in Vienna today found that cases have risen from 299 new cases in 2000 to 710 new cases in 2007. Researchers from the HPA's Centre for Infections reviewed all the reports of adults aged 15 and over who were newly diagnosed with HIV between 2000 and 2007, in England, Wales and Northern Ireland...

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