USA TODAY: There is some good news in the fight against AIDS: The rate of diagnosis for HIV infections has fallen in the United States by a third over the past decade, a study finds.
The report, released Saturday by the Journal of the American Medical Association, can be seen as a sign that the AIDS crisis, which first hit the U.S. in large numbers in the 1980s, is starting to subside…
There is bad news from the study: Infection rates among presumed gay men didn’t trend downward. “Increases were found among certain age groups of men who have sex with men, especially young men,” the study says. “Because of delays in diagnosis, temporal trends in diagnoses and variations among groups may reflect earlier changes in HIV incidence.”… (more)
