>The number of people newly diagnosed with HIV in Europe reached its highest level in 2016 since records began [...] >That year, 160,000 people contracted the

>The number of people newly diagnosed with HIV in Europe reached its highest level in 2016 since records began [...] >That year, 160,000 people contracted the virus that causes AIDS in the 53 countries that make up the World Health Organization's European region [...] This is confusing, is 160,000 referring to people who are diagnosed or people who contracted the virus that year? The fact that they are newly diagnosed with HIV doesn't mean they contracted the virus that year. In fact, later the article says >The trend was particularly worrying, the organizations said, because many patients had already been carrying the HIV infection for several years by the time they were diagnosed, making the virus harder to control and more likely to have been passed on to others. The rate of newly diagnosed (18.2 per 100k in the area with 900 million people) suggests that the 160k figure refers to newly diagnosed.