CORRECTION
Due to inaccurate statistics originally reported in Newsday, the Feb. 25 Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report story "Number of U.S. HIV Cases Rose by 50,000 in Last Year; AIDS Cases, Deaths Remain Stable, CDC Says" erroneously reported that the number of Americans diagnosed with HIV disease rose by 50,000 over the last 12 months. However, according to the CDC, estimated HIV prevalence -- the number of people estimated to be living with HIV/AIDS -- in the United States increased by about 50,000 from 1998 to 2000, bringing the total number of Americans living with HIV/AIDS to between 850,000 and 950,000. AIDS incidence -- the number of new AIDS cases that occur during a specified time period -- during 1999 and 2000 was 40,800 and 40,200, respectively, and the number of AIDS deaths during 1999 and 2000 were 17,200 and 15,300, respectively (Fleming et al., "HIV Prevalence in the United States, 2000," 9th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections Web site, 2/26).
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