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The 2004 Baltimore City HIV/AIDS Epidemiological Profile reports newly diagnosed cases of HIV and AIDS and numbers of those living with HIV and AIDS in the following zip codes where Central people live. (There is no data for 21204 or 21286.) 212-08, -09, -10, -12, -13, -14, -15, -18, -20, -21, -23, -24, -27, -28, -30, -31, -34, -36, -37, -39, -42. The zip code areas with a thousand or more individual cases are -02, -13, -15, -17, -18 and -23.

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Experts around the world agree that the only way to slow the HIV/AIDS epidemic is to change young people's behavior and perceptions of gender roles. Half of new infections occur among those 15 to 24.

Beyrer of the Bloomberg School of Public Health disagrees with the reports from some African countries of a decline in numbers of those with AIDS. "The biggest single factor is not A, B, C - it is D for death."