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World AIDS Day: Local health officials stress prevention

By Debra Pressey
Friday November 30, 2007

CHAMPAIGN – People infected with HIV are living longer these days, but health officials say the crucial message about prevention is still falling on too many deaf ears.

Some young people think the new medicines for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, are now so much better that it won't matter if they become infected, says Dr. Stephen Dolan, an infectious disease doctor at the Carle HIV Clinic.

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