CDC Numbers: HIV Prevention in US a Failure; AHF Calls for $200M to Test 10M People

"These numbers are a scathing indictment of how profoundly U.S. and CDC HIV prevention efforts have failed," said Michael Weinstein, President of AIDS Healthcare Foundation, the U.S. largest AIDS organization, in a statement from Mexico City. "Despite the way the CDC is spinning these new numbers--which AHF has been calling for the public release of since last October--there is absolutely no good news here. Without an accurate picture of the epidemic, vastly underestimated for the past ten years, we have missed countless opportunities to intervene with effective public health strategies. The U.S. must immediately appropriate $200 million in order to test 10 million people over the next...

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