U.S. HIV Rates on the Rise

The number of HIV diagnoses for U.S. men who have sex with men increased by 8 percent last year, which also marked the highest number of HIV/AIDS cases in the States since the 1980s. The Center for Disease Control estimates 1,039,000 to 1,185,000 Americans were living with HIV in December 2003, an increase of almost 25 percent since their last report in 2002.