Big question for 2005: what happened to CDC's HIV prevention plan? Experts say U.S. is long way from meeting goals.

Although the CDC has reached the year when its strategic plan for HIV prevention was supposed to be realized, little has changed since the plan was published in January 2001, experts say. For example, the HIV new infection rate has not changed at all, according to official estimates, and about the same proportion of HIV-infected individuals do not know their HIV status. Some experts claim the fault has been a lack of federal funding to back up the ambitious goals.