With about 1.1 million Americans living with HIV, and no outright cure on the horizon, is the United States anywhere close to eradicating the virus?
With about 1.1 million Americans living with HIV and no outright cure on the horizon, is the United States anywhere close to eradicating the virus?
In light of the date, U.S. federal health wings re-circulated their ambitious plan to put a stop to new HIV infections in the next 10 years."Now is the time to end the H.I.V. epidemic in the United States," said Alex Azar, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, in an HHS video released Friday that featured several interviews with federal health officials.
It aims to reduce new HIV infections by 75 percent in five years and 90 percent in 10 years through providing"evidence-based prevention services" like safe syringe programs and data surveillance to keep tabs on at-risk areas, once funded. New HIV diagnoses declined only slightly, by 8 percent, between 2010 and 2015, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. At present, approximately 165,000 people in the U.S. are infected but are not aware they have HIV, and more than 38,000 became newly infected in 2016, according to the CDC.
While infection rates have declined among heterosexual black women according to CDC estimates, they are still infected more often than people who inject drugs, heterosexual black men and heterosexual white women. About 4,000 new diagnoses among black women arise each year from heterosexual contact, compared to 999 among white women.
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