text: Women's HIV is not being treated early enough, the Terence Higgins Trust has said, as it warns that campaigns are too focused on gay men.
  
  The charity's research shows that almost half of women with HIV thought they had been diagnosed late, which could shorten their lives and mean their health is worse.
  
  Public health experts interviewed by the charity "felt that overall there had been a disproportionate focus on men who have sex with men (MSM) in the HIV response with one stakeholder suggesting that the sector had ‘taken its eye off the ball’ when it came to HIV and women", the report said.
  
  In 2016, 28,479 women in the UK were receiving care for HIV, around a third of the total.
  
  Women who had been diagnosed late "were less likely to rate their quality of life as very good, were more likely to rate their quality of life as poor or acceptable, and were more likely to say that their quality of life had got worse since diagnosis", the report added.
  
  Almost half of women interviewed had had a mental health diagnosis since their HIV diagnosis and a similar proportion were living below the poverty line.