Mayor Sheila Dixon expressed disappointment Wednesday upon learning that Baltimore has the second-highest rate of new cases of HIV in the country.

“Our condition in Baltimore is getting worse, and that is unacceptable,” she said, reacting to an interim report by the Baltimore City Commission on HIV/AIDS. “HIV is preventable, and we need to sound the alarm to our young people.”

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