Noah Adams talks with Steve Sternberg, a reporter for USA Today about the 8th Annual Retrovirus Conference in Chicago. At the conference, the Centers for Disease Control announced it will use a new tactic in fighting the spread of the AIDS, emphasizing the need to educate people already infected with HIV. The goal is to cut the number of new infections in half by the year 2005. Also released at the conference: a study that shows a third of gay black men in large U.S. cities are HIV positive.
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