The chairman of the D.C. Council’s health committee introduced a bill to establish an HIV/AIDS outreach program targeting senior citizens in the District. The program would direct the D.C. Department of Health to develop a curriculum focused on HIV/AIDS and the senior population, including recruiting and training seniors to be educators on prevention. According to Catania’s bill, the proportion of new AIDS cases nationally among adults 50 and older has increased to 26.4 percent in 2009 from 19.2 percent in 2005.
