This file photo shows a red AIDS ribbon emblazoned on the United Nations Secretariat Building in New York. For the first time since the height of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, more than a million Americans are believed to be living with the virus that c
ATLANTA - For the first time since the height of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, more than a million Americans are believed to be living with the virus that causes AIDS, the government said Monday.
The latest estimate is both good and bad news — reflecting the success of drugs that keep more people alive and the failure of the government to “break the back” of the AIDS epidemic by its stated goal of 2005.
Critics say the new estimate reflects a failure of prevention, and it comes in the year that the government had set as its deadline to “break the back” of the AIDS epidemic....