AEGiS-MISC: Magazine Calls on New US President to Have National AIDS Strategy

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Magazine Calls on New US President to Have National AIDS Strategy

Voice of America - November 3, 2008
Joe De Capua, Washington

A leading magazine on HIV/AIDS says whoever wins the US presidential election Tuesday, November 4th, should develop a national strategy to fight the disease. POZ Magazine says more than one million Americans live with HIV and 14 thousand people died of the disease in the United States in 2006. It's estimated that 25 percent of those infected with the AIDS virus don't know it.
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