More Americans infected with HIV

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More Americans infected with HIV

posted on Aug 02, 2008 09:03PM

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/c...

" About 56,000 people became infected with HIV in the past year, which translates to about 40 percent more cases"

(The CDC) "now using technology capable of determining when someone was infected. The new method can indicate whether someone has been infected with HIV during the previous five months"

(Michael Weinstein, president of AIDS Healthcare Foundation) "called on the United States to appropriate $200 million for the testing of 10 million people over the next three years."

"In the United States, more than 1 million people are living with HIV, and about one-fourth of them are unaware they have the virus, the CDC"

This should be good news for Medmira, but I don't know what new testing method the CDC is using.