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| Aids Worse than Thought; Prevention Paying Off |
| 2008-08-03 |
| Updated federal estimates of the annual number of new HIV infections in the United States, released yesterday, reveal that although the AIDS epidemic here is worse than previously thought, prevention efforts appear to be having some effect. Even though the number of Americans living with HIV has risen by more than a quarter-million people since 1998 -- largely because of life-extending antiretroviral drugs -- the number of new cases each year has declined slightly over that period. That suggests that a person's likelihood of transmitting the virus to someone else is substantially lower now than it was a decade ago. In December, The Washington Post reported that the CDC was revising HIV incidence upward to 50,000 to 60,000 cases a year. Yesterday's announcement -- and the publication of a paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association -- is the first official acknowledgment of the new, higher estimate. |
| Posted by:Bobby |
| #5 Enlightening, only if you've been in a coma for the past 20 years. Can we finally now move on to the... 'NON-preventable' pathogens and diseases? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2008-08-03 14:42 |
| #4 new twist: meth in the gay bathhouses. Now you can stay awake and get pounded bareback by 20 or 30 guys....what could possibly go wrong? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-08-03 11:22 |
| #3 If you can't keep it in your pants you may catch the AIDS and die, its a simple concept. There is a totally free way to prevent HIV, its called a rubber. They give them away at any health clinic. Why is this so hard to understand? |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-08-03 09:53 |
| #2 Where's the hetero AIDS pan epidemic were were promised in the 80s by the media? The one we were scared with in order to generate research funding equal to that of cancer, even though ten times as many people die in the US from cancer than AIDS. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-08-03 08:32 |
| #1 More research needed. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2008-08-03 07:31 |