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Article: New CDC technology reveals higher U.S. HIV infection rate.(The NATION: Health news at the national and federal levels)
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- October 1, 2008
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The United States is home to thousands more new HIV infections than previously thought, according to new estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Released in early August and published in a special edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association, the agency announced that about 56,300 U.S. HIV infections occurred in 2006--40 percent higher than the previous estimate of 40,000. The new estimate comes with CDC's adoption of a new HIV surveillance system that determines which HIV-positive test results represent new infections. Based on an HIV test that can differentiate between recent and longstanding HIV infections, the surveillance ...