LOS ANGELES, June 2 (Xinhua) -- HIV infections have become less
deadly in the United States thanks to more effective prevention
and powerful medications, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC) said Thursday. By 2008, there were nearly
1.18 million people in the U.S. living with HIV, 20 percent of
whom don't know they are infected, the CDC said. "Over the last
three decades, prevention efforts have helped reduce new
infections and treatment advances have allowed people with HIV
to live longer, healthier lives," CDC director Dr. Thomas R.
Frieden said in a news release. "But as these improvements have
taken place, our nation's collective sense of crisis has waned.
Far too many Americans underestimate their risk of infection, or
believe HIV is no longer a serious health threat, but they must
understand that HIV remains an incurable infection. We must
increase our resolve to end this epidemic." According to the
CDC, each year in the U.S., some 50,000 people become newly
infected with HIV. Over