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Aids educators target the elderly in US
Rates of HIV infection among Americans over 50 are growing twice as fast as those under 50 - now more than 13 per cent of all HIV cases in the country.
AIDS is growing twice as fast in the over 50s than in the younger generations.
Doctor Rob Keller says he`s seeing an explosion of older AIDS cases.
His patients are more sexually active than ever before because of new sexual enhancing drugs.
Increasingly popular retirement villages with day-long group activities are the perfect place for the revolution to take place.
But here women are in the vast majority and need help to stop them becoming victims of pill-popping so-called `Condominium Casanovas`.
Senior citizens have not only been largely ignored by AIDS educators, but doctors have often misdiagnosed those with HIV, or they`ve not even bothered to test them.
At least now that does appear to be changing.
Bureau Report