8 States Cut From System That Tracks Rate of H.I.V.

8 States Cut From System That Tracks Rate of H.I.V. - NYTimes.com

ATLANTA — Eight states and Puerto Rico will no longer receive federal money for an advanced H.I.V. monitoring system that showed that the annual infection rate in the nation was 40 percent higher than previously estimated, officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday.

The change will lower the number of jurisdictions using the system to
25, from 34, just as health departments are struggling to react to the
news, released earlier this month, that the spread of AIDS is far worse
than they had thought...