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United Press International - Monday, January 25, 1999
While the total number of AIDS cases diagnosed and reported to the city has dropped in recent years, the percentage of adults in their 40s, 50s and 60s developing the disease is on the rise.
Medical experts say that is because advanced health care and medications are preventing the HIV virus from becoming full-blown AIDS for longer periods of time.
According to the New York Post, the number of people in their 40s diagnosed with AIDS in 1997 acounted for 35.6 percent of the total cases that year, compared with 27.6 percent in 1990.
People in their 50s accounted for 12.7 percent of the cases in 1997, compared with 8.2 percent in 1990. And people in their 60s accounted for 2.8 percent of the cases in 1997 compared with 2.2 percent in 1990.
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