With infection rates rising, will the new administration stay focused on AIDS? Activists worry that HIV prevention will be ignored.

In a banner year for HIV prevention funding from the federal government, the news from major epidemic cities on both coasts puts a damper on any back-patting. It looks like new HIV infection rates are on the rise again among men who have sex with men. AIDS advocates say this means the Bush administration should renew the previous administration's focus on HIV prevention funding and make sure it remains a priority. Otherwise, middle America may soon see the same increases in HIV infection and a simultaneous increase in unsafe sexual behaviors among the people who are most at risk of infection.