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HIV Infection Rate Among Blacks Doubles Updated: Friday, Feb. 25, 2005 - 7:08 PM

By JEFF DONN
Associated Press Writer

BOSTON (AP) - The HIV infection rate has doubled among blacks in the United States over a decade while holding steady among whites _ stark evidence of a widening racial gap in the epidemic, government scientists said Friday.

Other troubling statistics indicate that almost half of all infected people in the United States who should be receiving HIV drugs are not getting them.