HIV-AIDS Statistics at a Glance - Community Education at Pulse Uniform | Community Education Pulse Uniform

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HIV-AIDS Facts

• More than 35 million people now live with HIV/AIDS and
  3.3 million of them are under the age of 15.
• In 2012, an estimated 2.3 million people were newly
  infected with HIV and it is in fact that every day, nearly
  6,300 people contract HIV - nearly 262 every hour. Also, in
  the same year, 1.6 million people died from AIDS.
• There are approximately 1.1 million people living with
  HIV/AIDS in the U.S., and almost 1 in 6 of them is unaware
  of their infection.
• Since the start of the AIDS epidemic, 1.7 million Americans
  have been infected with HIV and more than 650,000 have died
  from it.
• An estimated 50,000 new HIV infections occur in the
  U.S. each year.
• Men who have sex with men (MSM) account for the majority
  of new HIV/AIDS diagnoses although MSM comprise only around
  4% of the U.S. male population.
• New HIV diagnoses among MSM were more than 44 times
  higher than among other men and more than 40 times higher
  than women in 2008. By race, blacks/African Americans face
  the most severe burden of HIV.
• It is best to contemplate serious matters, particularly
  diseases such as AIDS. Awareness, motivation and a better
  perspective of things can provide answers to these problems.