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Updated Fact Sheet on HIV/AIDS Epidemic in the United States |
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Updated Fact Sheet on HIV/AIDS
Epidemic in the United States |
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This week the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
issued its annual surveillance report on the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United
States. To help provide an overview of the latest data and trends, the Kaiser
Family Foundation has updated its fact sheet on HIV/AIDS in the U.S., as well as
several state indicators on statehealthfacts.org.
The new data include estimates of the number of new AIDS cases, the cumulative number of AIDS cases, the number of people living with AIDS, the number of AIDS deaths, and the AIDS case rate (the number of reported cases in the year per 100,000 population). The fact sheet also provides an historical overview of the epidemic and describes how HIV/AIDS has affected racial and ethnic minorities, women, young people, and men who have sex with men. The updated fact sheet is available at http://www.kff.org/hivaids/3029.cfm. State-level breakdowns of the data are available on http://www.statehealthfacts.org, a Kaiser web tool providing data on hundreds of health topics for the U.S., the 50 states, and the District of Columbia that can be displayed in easy-to-read tables, charts, and color-coded maps. For more information, contact Rob Graham at rgraham@kff.org or (650) 854-9400, or Kate Schoen at kschoen@kff.org or (650) 854-9400. The actual fact sheet can be found at the following URL: http://www.kff.org/hivaids/upload/3029_08.pdf |
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