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Today, the presumptive nominees of the two ruling political parties of the United States issued statements in respond to CDC's release of data confirming higher rates of HIV incidence in the U.S.

McCain still has not called for a national AIDS strategy, which is a leading priority of hundreds of local, state and national HIV/AIDS groups, and has not released an HIV/AIDS platform. Obama's HIV/AIDS platform includes both domestic and global components, and is linked at the very bottom of his website page on health care.

Do the candidates' statement go far enough towards a viable plan for combatting the domestic epidemic? Read the full post and decide for yourself -- comments welcome!

Obama Responds to CDC Numbers on HIV/AIDS

Senator Obama released the following statement on the Center for Disease Control's report about new cases of HIV/AIDS in the United States.

"We have now learned that 56,300 new HIV infections occurred in the United States in 2006, not 40,000 that had been previously cited. These new figures should bring new focus to our efforts to address AIDS and HIV here at home.

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