Epidemiology

Dramatic Decline in U.S. AIDS Deaths Reported in 1997

Published in AIDS Weekly, February 16th, 1998

AIDS deaths across the United States dropped a stunning 44 percent in the first half of 1997, showing the power of new treatments to control the disease.

Doctors have known almost since they began widely prescribing potent three-drug combinations two years ago that fewer people with AIDS were dying, but even the experts seem surprised by the scope of their success.

"We can't see the end of the epidemic, but it's the beginning of a new era," said Dr. Kevin DeCock, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia.

The latest evidence of this change came when CDC officials presented data at the Fifth...

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