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U.S. Launches HIV Prevention Campaign

April 7, 2009 on 1:30 pm | In HIV | No Comments

While support for Africa seemed to dominate the conversation around HIV for the last decade, we still have a troublingly high rate of infection to confront, here at home. The Obama Administration has announced a new effort to to slow the spread of HIV within the the United States:

The move comes several months after the CDC revised statistics showing the annual rate of HIV infection in the U.S. to be far higher than previously thought. Roughly 56,000 people become infected with HIV every year domestically, according to the new CDC statistics, compared with a previous annual estimate of 40,000 new cases a year. About 14,000 people die of AIDS annually in the U.S.

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