The ongoing challenge of HIV.(Guest Editorial)

Publication: Skin & Allergy News

Publication Date: 01-FEB-05

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Thanks to the advent of effective antiretroviral treatments, patients living with the human immunodeficiency virus in the United States can now expect to live nearly 2 decades from the day of becoming infected, and perhaps even to have a normal lifespan.

But there's some bad news about AIDS in America: The downward trend in the rate of new HIV infections leveled off several years ago at about 40,000 per year. Perhaps most alarming, of the 850,000-950,000 Americans...

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