New Stats Show HIV Rate Higher Than Thought
August 2, 2008 by James Hipps
Updated federal estimates of the annual number of new HIV infections in the United States, released today, reveal that while 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 the result 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.
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