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But every two years, the Minnesota Board of Government Innovation and Cooperation seems to find itself on the political chopping block. Last year, AIDS killed almost 3 million people. More than 5 million were newly infected with HIV in 2000, nearly 4 million of them in Africa. In Eastern Europe and South and Southeast Asia, there is evidence the disease is taking deadly hold. AIDS has become the major cause of death among men in the Caribbean younger than 45.