Donate

Play Live Radio

Next Up:

0:00

0:00 0:00

Available On Air Stations

SC Public Radio's statewide network is experiencing intermittent outages and programming issues due to ongoing infrastructure upgrades. Our team is working to keep these disruptions to a minimum and to resolve issues that do arise. Streaming on this site, the SCETV App, the NPR App, and smart speakers is unaffected.

Aids Numbers

NPR

Published January 24, 1997 at 12:00 AM EST

NPR's Joe Palca reports that the rate of AIDS deaths dropped dramatically in New York City in the first seven months of last year, according to public health officials there. The drop is being attributed to the dramatic effects of new AIDS drugs introduced at the beginning of 1996. At the same time, the rate of new HIV infections nationwide fell in young gay men and young injection drug users -- but rose precipitously in young heterosexual men and women, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.