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Comment by Wilhelmina Olley on February 3, 2009 at 2:33pm

It's estimated that one in every 20 adults in the District of Columbia is infected with HIV.
DC has the highest rate of new AIDS cases per 100,000 population in the United States -- a rate that is 11 times the national average.
In DC, the greatest increase in AIDS cases is occurring among people of color, women, injection drug users and through heterosexual contact.
In DC, 81 percent of all AIDS cases are among African-Americans.
More than 15,000 people in the Washington metropolitan area live with AIDS. Tens of thousands more people are estimated to be infected with HIV.
Nationwide, someone under the age of 25 is infected with HIV every