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title: ""Four London sexual health clinics saw dramatic falls in new HIV…"
date: 2017-01-10
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# "Four London sexual health clinics saw dramatic falls in new HIV…

*January 10, 2017 · Facebook*

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[https://www.newscientist.com/article/2117426-massive-drop-in-london-hiv-rates-may-be-due-to-internet-drugs/](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2117426-massive-drop-in-london-hiv-rates-may-be-due-to-internet-drugs/){target="_blank"}
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\"Four London sexual health clinics saw dramatic falls in new HIV infections among gay men of around 40 per cent last year, compared with 2015, new figures show.\
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This decline may be mostly due to thousands of people buying medicines called pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), which cut the chance of catching the virus, online.\
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"We need to be very cautious at this stage, but I can't see what else it can be," says Will Nutland at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who has set up PrEPster, a website that gives people information on how to give themselves PrEP. "Something extraordinary has happened in the last 12 months because of a bunch of DIY activists working off our kitchen tables."\
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The medicine has been approved in the UK as a drug for preventing HIV infection in both men and women, but it isn't yet available on the National Health Service.\"
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