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Article: AIDS, HIV INCREASE AMONG MINORITIES HERE.(COMMUNITIES)
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- The Capital Times
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- August 20, 2002
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Byline: Pat Schneider The Capital Times
Strategies to prevent HIV infection and treat people with AIDS must change with the changing face of AIDS, a gathering in Madison was told Monday.
In the past 20 years, the incidence of HIV infection and AIDS among minorities in Wisconsin has grown from a fraction of cases reported each year to some 57 percent of new cases in 2000-01, said Neil Hoxie of the Wisconsin Division of Public Health.
Representatives of agencies serving people with HIV/AIDS and community-based minority groups gathered at an African-American and Latino HIV/AIDS Summit sponsored by the Urban League of Greater Madison.
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