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HIV/AIDS
Estimate of Annual HIV Incidence Increases Significantly; New Estimate Will Show Need for a National AIDS Strategy
August 19th, 2008
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) long anticipated revised estimate of annual new cases of HIV infections will be revealed on Aug. 3 in a paper published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The revised estimated number of new infections suggests that the HIV epidemic here in the United States is more severe than current statistics portray. The revised estimate for 2006 will replace the current, widely reported estimate of 40,000 annual new infections, which has been used for a number of years. The anticipated estimated number of new HIV infections will remain high, and is higher than what America has been led to believe. After 27 years,...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-08-19)
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