Posted on June 27, 2017
Source: The Washington Post
"In 2007, D.C. residents were diagnosed with HIV at a rate of nearly four per day. That rate dropped to less than one resident per day in 2016.
The 74 percent decline in new cases — from 1,333 in 2007 to 347 in 2016 — can be attributed to factors that include a needle-exchange program, condom distribution and increasing use of preventive medication to halt the spread of the disease, city officials said Tuesday.
'I’m pleased to say we have made considerable progress, but I don’t have to tell you there is more work to do,' Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) said at a news conference at the Whitman-Walker Health community clinic on 14th Street NW."
