Editors' note: Greg Varnum is the Acting Executive Director of
the National Youth Advocacy Coalition. I've got some national
disease infection figures for you based on results of an
optional test people in 22 states bothered to take. By the way,
I also have another report telling you that only an estimated
10.4% of people between the ages of 18 and 64 bothered to get
that test in the year those figures came from. This the
introduction to the recent report released by the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on HIV infections that I
would have proposed. Not as compelling as what they went
with...but a bit more direct. Aside from realizing that I have
little future in professionally writing research report
introductions, I hope you can understand that I have a skeptical
perspective on reports like the one recently released by the
CDC. Do I think this report is an important and amazing
advancement in our understanding of the Modern AIDS Epidemic?
Yes. Do I agree with many others that it gives us the