Confused

The experts were becoming confused.

Data from HIV surveillance since the 1990s told us that sexual activity remained to be high among young people. Age of sexual initiation was becoming younger. Multiple sexual partners remained to be high, while unprotected sex particularly non-condom use during risky sexual encounters (anal sex) stayed to very low among Filipinos identified to be most vulnerable or at risk to HIV infections – the entertainment workers (and technically called sex workers) and their clients, gay men and other men who have sex with men, and Filipinos who inject drugs.

Why was HIV not spreading as predicted in the mid-1990s?

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