Editorial: Obama’s HIV/AIDS Strategy on Target for U.S.

President Obama's new initiative to combat HIV/AIDS provides a "better focus" and "comes none too soon" as about 90,000 California residents have died from the disease and roughly 200,000 individuals will have been diagnosed with HIV or AIDS by the end of 2010, a Sacramento Bee editorial states. By allocating resources to high-risk populations and focusing on prevention, the administration's effort "offers hope that this scourge one day will be turned into a memory," the editorial concludes.

• "Obama's AIDS Plan Comes at a Critical Time" (Sacramento Bee, 7/18).