It was “yet another man health workout increase in the number of people living with HIV, particularly among gay men and African people”, the charity said.

The Terrence Higgins Trust said about a third of people living with HIV were unaware they had the condition.

They are urging greater access to tests for health spa beauty treatment diseases.

David Greenway, from the trust in Yorkshire, said: “We can prevent new infections by hammering home those safer sex messages to people most at risk of HIV.

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“The message is clear: use a condom, and get tested if you think you’ve been at risk of infection.

“Diagnosing the third of people with HIV who don’t know they have it is vital to prevent onward transmission and untimely deaths.

“To bring these numbers down, we must make it easier and faster to get tested for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.”

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on figures released by the Health Health natural remedy treatment Agency, which said about 63,500 UK adults were living with HIV in 2005 - with as many as a third unaware of their infection.