Hiv And Aids Statistics. Around 1 1 million people are living with hiv in the united states of america usa. Human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome hiv aids is a spectrum of conditions caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus hiv a retrovirus.
Following initial infection a person may not notice any symptoms or may experience a brief period of influenza like illness. It weakens your immune system so your body has a hard time fighting off common germs viruses fungi and other invaders. Hiv and aids remain a persistent problem for the united states and countries around the world.
Hiv is a virus that lives in human blood sexual fluids and breast milk.
In 2018 an estimated 37 9 million people were living with hiv including 1 7 million children with a global hiv prevalence of 0 8 among adults around 21 of these same people do not know that they have the virus 1 since the start of the epidemic an estimated 74 9 million people have become infected with hiv. Nearly one in seven of these people are unaware they have hiv 1 the size of the epidemic is relatively small compared to the overall population but is heavily concentrated among several key affected populations in 2017 66 of annual new hiv infections occurred among gay men and other men who have sex with men. The aids new general surveillance quarterly updates cases reported quarterly from september 1996 to june 2000 and earlier year copies of the nys hiv aids new general surveillance annual report 2006 and earlier are only available in hard copy. Typically this is followed by a prolonged period with no symptoms.
