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Washington DC has a 3% rate of infection with the HIV/AIDS virus among its post-pubescent population, NBC's Robert Bazell reported, warning that even that statistic "could be way too low because officials estimate that less than half of the people who are infected know it." Some gay men "think newer treatments have solved the problem," Bazell explained, accounting for some of the spread. Mostly it is a disease of poor African-Americans, with "a big jump in heterosexual spread, often from drug users to their partners and often through prostitution."
Without spelling out what similarity he was hinting at, Bazell concluded that the District of Columbia has the same level of HIV/AIDS infection "as many West African nations." What point was he making?
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