The institute pays for participants to travel to Atlanta for four intense, one-week training seminars on the latest approaches to prevent and combat the disease. They have homework assignments in their communities in the interim, he says.
In 2004, South Carolina ranked 10th nationwide in the rate of AIDS cases. Washington, D.C., ranked first. Columbia ranked 11th nationwide in metropolitan areas with a population of at least 500,000. Miami topped that list, according to the latest figures from the CDC. The rankings are based on the number of AIDS cases per every 100,000 people.
— Associated Press
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