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PaulKing - 09 Sep 2004 22:42 GMT

Source is CDC's HIV/AIDS Surveillance Reports.

During the period when the incidence of AIDS in the USA rose
gradually to a peak in 1992 and has since been declining steadily the CDC
reported a constant prevalence of HIV in the population (1 million
Americans) from 1985 to 1995. In 1996, the CDC revised downward the
estimate of the prevalence of HIV in the population retrospectively from
1992 to now with yet another constant figure of 650,000.
That is, the prevalence of HIV in the USA has never gone up. It has
remained constant for 10 years or was lowered to a new figure that has
remained constant for 8 years during a period when AIDS increased,
reached
a peak, and has since been steadily declining.

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David Canzi -- non-mailable address - 10 Sep 2004 03:03 GMT

>the CDC
>reported a constant prevalence of HIV in the population (1 million
>Americans) from 1985 to 1995. In 1996, the CDC revised downward the
>estimate of the prevalence of HIV in the population retrospectively from
>1992 to now with yet another constant figure of 650,000.
>That is, the prevalence of HIV in the USA has never gone up.

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"in 1999 ... the CDC estimated HIV incidence as approximately 40,000
infections per year and the number of persons living with HIV at
about 800,000 to 900,000 (MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 1999)."

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