"The proportion of Americans who consider HIV/AIDS to be the "most urgent health problem facing this nation today" has decreased from 38% in 1997 to 17% in 2002." So laments former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) HIV/AIDS director Dr. Harold Jaffe in the August 27 issue of Science... [But] To a great extent Dr. Jaffe, now with the Department of Public Health at Oxford University in England, ... illustrates why AIDS should be eliciting less concern and funding...he shows new diagnoses peaked a full decade ago and are now barely half the rate as then. Deaths peaked slightly...