World Cup fans urged to get HIV test since South Africa has 6 million with HIV

• ***7/16, BBC: "Doctors are advising football fans who went to the World Cup in South Africa to check their HIV status if they had unprotected sex on their trip.

Up to 25,000 England fans recently returned from South Africa, where about six million people have HIV.

• More than two-thirds of heterosexual men and a quarter of women who contract HIV do so
  

• through holiday sex.

An awareness campaign is urging those who may have put themselves at risk to visit their local sexual health clinic.

• The campaign - 'Beer Goggle Johnny's Guide to Sexual Health' - has been launched by Birmingham's Heartlands Hospital, but is backed by national organisations."...

Holiday sex? A cheery way to talk about suicide and homicide which more accurately describe getting or giving HIV. ed.

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