HIV/AIDS Facts 2008
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation has updated its HIV/AIDS policy fact sheet. It provides an interesting summary of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United States over the last 27 years.
Figure 1: Key Snapshot of the U.S. Epidemic Today2,3,4,5,6
Number of new HIV infections each year: 40,000
Number of people living with HIV/AIDS: 1.2 million, including more than 440,000 with AIDS
Number of AIDS deaths since beginning of epidemic: 565,927, including 14,627 in 2006
Percent of people infected with HIV who don’t know it: 25%
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