For the past few years, we've seemed to be on the way to winning the war against AIDS. But last week we got a chilling reminder that victory is still not in sight. It came in the form of some grim statistics from the nation's first large-scale HIV-prevention conference, held in Atlanta by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Although the number of AIDS deaths has dropped to slightly fewer than 20,000 a year, off 60% from 1995, a closer look at the figures indicates that it is much too early to even think about uncorking the champagne. While the...
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