Battle against AIDS sees success

There’s a saying in sports: The game’s not over until the final buzzer sounds. We ought to have a similar attitude in the fight against HIV andAIDS.

Those of us in the trenches have had some success. You might even say we’re winning the game.

Just last week, for instance, Gov. David Paterson, in a speech to the Annual New York Statewide Meeting of the National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS (NBLCA), reported that the number of AIDSdiagnoses in New York State dropped from 14,000 in 1993 to 6,000 last year.