The CDC previously reported that more people are becoming infected each year than previously estimated, with 56,300 new HIV infections in the United States in 2006. Previous estimates put the number of new infections at about 40,000 a year.

Of all the people infected with HIV, 48 percent were men who have sex with men, the CDC said. While male-to-male sexual contact was the leading cause of HIV infections, heterosexual sex — mostly women having sex with men who are injection drug users — accounted for 28 percent of HIV-infected people.

Injection drug use, which spreads the blood-borne virus via contaminated needles, contributed 19 percent of the HIV cases.

Blacks make up 12 percent of the overall population but accounted for 46 percent of those infected with HIV (510,100 people). About 35 percent of those with HIV were white and 18 percent were Hispanic, according to the CDC.

Black women were nearly 18 times more likely than white women to be infected with HIV, while black men were six times more likely than white men, the CDC said. Hispanics were 2.6 times more likely than whites to be infected.

Maybe part of the funding and hysteria over AIDS is that it is a disease that can kill middle America. You don't hear of Johnny dying from malaria, so we don't care as much about that.

Magic Johnson's blood holds the cure!!