I always wondered how accurate the United States method of getting an acurate count of HIV cases was. Seems as though we have been a bit off. I found this article today which talks about how the CDC has developed new counting methods that show us that our HIV rates are up by 25% than what was thought.
"They were counting the numbers in a way that was leaving out certain segments of the society. So that 40,000 was probably an undercounted number," he said.
Instead of using an extrapolated mathematical model to come up with the rate of new infections, he said, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was now relying on better counting of more groups, households and regions.
"The number went up to about 50,000. That doesn't mean that the actual rate of new infections increased. It means that we are now no longer missing counting the ones that we missed early," Fauci said. "It was always 50,000 a year."
If you have a moment, read it!
1 comment:
Its so sad that there are that many new infections for a disease that is virtually preventable.
Mark :-)
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