45%
Percentage of adults between 18 and 64 who reported ever being tested for HIV in 2009, a record high, up from 40% in 2006, when the CDC recommended that HIV testing become a routine part of medical care for adults and teens. [via MMWR]
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Special Reports
The Disease that Won’t Die: Tuberculosis in Peru
Tuberculosis has been brought under control in much of the world, thanks to prevention practices and powerful antibiotics. But in poor nations like Peru, the disease still kills hundreds of babies and children — and new drug-resistant cases threaten an even bigger resurgence.
