CDC estimates that roughly 1.2 million people in the United States are living with HIV – and nearly one in eight of those are not aware that they are infected.
Approximately 1.1 million people in the United States are living with HIV today. But not all of them know it. In fact, about 15 percent (or 1 in 7) of them are not aware they are living with HIV. That means there are approximately 165,000 people in the U.S.
Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS
| HIV/AIDS pandemic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemiology_of_HIV/AIDS | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First outbreak | June 5, 1981 | |||||||||||
| Date | 1981 – present | |||||||||||
| Confirmed cases | 64.4 million – 113 million | |||||||||||
| Deaths | 40.1 million total deaths (2021) | |||||||||||
While HIV is a virus that may cause an infection, AIDS (which is short for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) is a condition. Contracting HIV can lead to the development of AIDS. AIDS, or stage 3 HIV, develops when HIV has caused serious damage to the immune system.
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