Epidemiology

AIDS Cases In The U.S.: Not Growing, But Not Declining Either

Published in AIDS Weekly, September 3rd, 2001

The declines in the number of Americans contracting HIV and those dying of AIDS are leveling off, signaling a disturbing turning point in the 20-year epidemic, federal health officials said August 13, 2001.

AIDS cases and deaths peaked in the early 1990s, then fell steadily as new, more effective drugs took hold. But both statistics have been nearly flat since 1998, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said.

The findings, released at a national HIV prevention conference in Atlanta, Georgia, bolster a concern expressed by health officials who marked AIDS' 20th anniversary earlier this year: many Americans, numbed by news of...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2001-09-03)

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