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Reports that by the year 2001, half of the HIV population in the United States could be Blacks. Information on HIV and Blacks in the United States; Comments from Mario Cooper, an HIV-positive Black; Names of prominent Black health officials who attended a conference where Cooper made the revelation; Number of African-Americans diagnosed with HIV daily.

The article reports that a study funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health found that administering AIDS drugs to HIV patients rendered them significantly less infectious. Myron Cohen of the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases at the University of North Carolina led the study, which involved 1,763 couples, one each of which had HIV.

The article reports that scientists at the Vaccine Research Center of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases have discovered antibodies capable of neutralizing up to 90 percent of known strains of the HIV virus. The antibodies were discovered in the cells of a 60-year old gay man. Gary Nabel, one of the researchers, states that developing a vaccine which would allow other persons to develop the antibodies is a long-term project.