(HIv/AIdS)
Report On Kids
The number of black high school students
engaging in sexual risk behaviors for HIv
has declined dramatically in 20 years, sig-
nificantly reducing the disparities in risk
between black youth and youth of other
racial or ethnic groups, according to a new
analysis by the Centers for disease Control
and Prevention. Among students overall,
however, behavior change has stalled dur-
ing the last 10 years studied, the report says.
The analysis examines trends in several
reported behaviors related to HIv risk by
race and ethnicity between 1991 and
2011. overall, the proportion of sexually
active students who used a condom the
last time they had sex increased from 1991
(46 percent) to 2003 (63 percent) and has
stabilized since that time (60 percent in
2011). Among black youth, condom use
increased from 1991 (48 percent) to 1999
(70 percent) but declined since that time
(65 percent in 2011). CdC.gov
(HIv/AIdS)
AIDS Cure
For the first time in 22 years, the Inter-
national AIDS Conference was held in
the U.S., possible only because Presi-
dent Obama lifted the 25-year-old travel
ban that prevented HIv-positive people
from entering the United States in 2010.
More than 25,000 doctors, scientists,
activists, politicans, drug company rep-
resentatives and people living with HIv
attended the July event in Washington
D.C. where talk about a "cure" for AIDS
was a first.
A workgroup of 300 researchers are
working on a global strategy for finding
a cure for HIv/AIDS, the disease that
has taken 30 million lives worldwide
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