CDC Officials Say US At Risk Of Losing Fight Against AIDS.

reports that in an essay published in The New England Journal of Medicine on Tuesday, World AIDS Day, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Thomas R. Frieden and the CDC’s chief of AIDS prevention Dr. Jonathan Mermin write that despite efforts to combat HIV/AIDS, the US is still in danger of losing the fight against AIDS. “Hundreds of thousands of people with diagnosed H.I.V. infection are not receiving care or antiretroviral treatment,” Frieden and Mermin wrote. “These people account for most new H.I.V. transmission,” they added, noting that 45,000 new infections occur each year. The Times adds that some AIDS experts “said [the article] amounted to a call for radical changes in how the disease is fought,” while other experts “complained that Dr. Frieden should have gone further, calling for much more funding, a heavier reliance on preventive drugs and the decriminalization of H.I.V. transmission.” http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/02/health/us-still-in-danger-of-losing-war-on-aids-cdc-director-says.html?ref=health&_r=0