March 1, 2019, HealthDay News via Monthly Prescribing Reference 

The battle against new HIV infections has lost some steam in recent years, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. After about five years of significant declines, the number of new HIV infections began to level off in 2013, at about 39,000 infections per year. The reason for the slowing, according to the CDC, is that effective HIV prevention and treatments are not reaching those who could most benefit. These shortfalls in prevention and treatment are most glaring in rural areas and in the South, and they disproportionately affect blacks and Hispanics. 

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