The from today’s Los Angeles Times:
The United Nations on Monday radically lowered years of estimates of the number of people worldwide infected by the AIDS virus, revealing that the growth of the AIDS pandemic is waning for the first time since HIV was discovered 26 years ago.
The revised figures, which were the result of much more sophisticated sampling techniques, indicate that the number of new infections peaked in 1998 and the number of deaths peaked in 2005.
The new analysis shows that the total number of people living with HIV has been gradually increasing, but at a slower rate than in the past.
Hints of those trends were present in the older estimates, but at much greater numbers.
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