n the past 15 years, an increasing number of gay and bisexual men in Amsterdam are having unprotected sex — possibly explaining why their HIV rate has stopped falling and might even be inching up, a new study finds. Researchers suspect that the trend — a reversal of the decline in risky sex seen in the 1980s — is related to the powerful anti-HIV drug “cocktails” that came into wide use in 1996. The drugs, which can keep HIV from becoming full-blown AIDS and make an infected person less likely to pass the virus on, have altered many people’s view of HIV. Instead of a death sentence, it seems more like a manageable chronic disease.

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