950,000 Americans infected with HIV By DANIEL YEE Associated Press ATLANTA - Nearly a million Americans now have the AIDS virus and the nation's ability to keep others from becoming infected still lags despite a government pledge four years ago to "break the back" of the AIDS epidemic by 2005. ADVERTISEMENT The campaign, launched by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in February 2001, intended to cut in half the estimated 40,000 new HIV infections that have occurred every year since the 1990s. However, the rate of new cases remains about the same, according to CDC data released Wednesday....
