Sean Kelly
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CDC: HIV rate same as decade ago
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Despite the government's promise to "break the back" of the AIDS epidemic by 2005, about 40,000 Americans test positive for the HIV infection every year -- the same number as a decade ago.
The figure is double the annual goal of 20,000 new HIV cases laid out by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention nearly four years ago. Nearly a million people in the United States now have the AIDS virus.
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In 2001, the CDC's campaign focused on outwardly healthy people who did not realize they had HIV -- about a fourth of those infected. Officials then said targeting them was key, because if they knew they were infected, they would be more likely to take steps not to spread the virus. |
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12-02-2004 07:42 PM
