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NEW YORK — New data show New York City residents are contracting the virus that causes AIDS at three times the national rate.
The city health department said Wednesday that almost 4,800 New Yorkers were infected with HIV in 2006. That’s 72 of every 100,000 residents, compared with a national rate of 23 per 100,000.
Health officials attribute the city’s relatively high rate of new infections to its large populations of gay men, blacks and other groups on whom HIV has traditionally taken a heavy toll.
