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...Monday in Atlanta for the National HIV Prevention Conference hoping that those statistics will help them challenge the complacency over AIDS in recent years. "The slowing of the decline in AIDS deaths is a reminder that the message of prevention needs to be reaffirmed," says TIME science correspondent Janice Horowitz. "The drug breakthroughs created a lot of optimism that AIDS could be beaten, and that was underscored by drug company ads depicting people with HIV climbing mountains and so on, apparently unaffected by their infection. But the drug regimen to fight the disease is far from easy, and even then...
...percent and women for 8 percent, by last year African-Americans accounted for 45 percent of new AIDS cases, Latinos for 22 percent and women for 23 percent. "In some communities the social message hasn?t gotten out and there?s a much higher incidence of risky behavior," says Horowitz. "The challenge for public health officials is to find ways of tailoring the AIDS-prevention message in ways that make such subgroups more receptive." But with two thirds of new AIDS cases now reported in communities whose crises don?t exactly dominate the headlines, that may be an uphill battle...