By Giulia Rozzi

The number of American teens with HIV has increased in recent years.

According to the report there are a number of factors may be at play, including the fact that many HIV-infected patients are now being kept healthy with powerful drugs — making AIDS seem like less of a threat to young people than it did in the past.

Also “the ’scare factor’ isn’t there anymore,” said Rowena Johnston, vice president of research at the Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR) in New York City.

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