Reality Check

(Fox News) - While AIDS activists continue to paint the 25-year-old epidemic as out-of-control — epidemiologists from Harvard and Berkeley say that is no longer the case. Cybercast News reports the scientists say that while the epidemic is still serious — it is no longer raging out of control in most of the world.

Doctor James chin says the infection rates in Africa range from a high of around 20 percent in South Africa — to as low as less than one percent in Senegal. Infection rates in Uganda have fallen from 15 percent in the early nineties to around six percent now.

Experts say United Nations statistics in the past were often inflated — but new counting methods have forced the U.N. to quietly scale back its estimates.