The FDA approved the OraQuick In-Home HIV test, an oral, rapid-acting test with results in 20 to 40 minutes.
The Obama Administration announced an ambitious initiative to curb the HIV/AIDS epidemic by reducing new HIV infections by 25 percent within five years, and by concentrating those efforts on the 12 U.S. cities with the highest AIDS rates.
According to CDC end-of-year projections, just under half of all U.S. citizens living with HIV were African-American.
HIV was the leading cause of death for black women ages 24-34, and the third leading cause of death for ages 35-44.
The tennis great revealed he developed AIDS after contracting HIV from tainted blood during heart surgery years earlier.
