December 1st was World AIDS day, which was first marked thirty years ago. Since that time, this annual observance has continued to be an important reminder of the ways in which the HIV/AIDS epidemic has evolved since the early 1980s when it was first beginning to be identified.
Read MoreNew HIV diagnoses are rising in the young adult age group, with an increase in 13- to 24 year-old men of new HIV diagnoses up 132 percent from nearly 3,000 in 2002 to nearly 7,000 in 2011.
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