Most people say that the USA is making progress in fighting
AIDS, but they don’t know there’s cure and strongly disagree that "the AIDS
62. ______ epidemic is over,"
a new survey finds. The findings, relieved Thursday by the
Kaiser Family Foundation, reassure 63. ______ assure
activists who have worried that public concern about AIDS might disappear in
night to recent news about advances in treatment and declines
64. ______ in deaths. "While people are very
pessimistic about the advances, they’re still
65. ______ realistic about the fact that there is no cure," says Sophia
Chang, director of HIV programs at the foundation. The Kaiser
Family Foundation did find in its survey that the number
66. ______ of people ranked AIDS as the country’s top
health problem has fallen. 67.
______ In the poll, 38% says it’s the top concern, down from 44%
in a 1996 68. ______ poll. Other
findings from Kaiser, which poll more than 1,200 adults in September 69.
______ and October and asked additional question of another 1,000 adults in
70. ______ Novembershow that
52% say that the country is making progress against AIDS, up from 32% in
1995. Daniel Zingale, director of AIDS Action Council, says," I’m encouraged
that the American people are getting the message what the AIDS. epidemic
isn’t over. I hope the decision-makers in Washington 71.
______ are getting the same message. We have seen signs of complacency
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