AIDS The Facts Behind The Disease u Every 10 minutes, an American becomes infected with HIV. u Approximately 300,000 people in the United States infected with HIV don’t know it. u Women account for 1 out of every 4 new HIV/AIDS diagnoses in the United States, and African-American women account for two-thirds of new AIDS cases among women.
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u Every 16 seconds a woman is infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. u Every 29 seconds, a women dies from an AIDS-related illness. u In the United States, more people are infected with HIV through heterosexual sex than through IV drug use. u 73 percent of all new HIV infections are male, and 72 percent of those males were infected through male-to-male sexual contact u The Southern United States has the highest number of AIDS cases (17,083 in 2008), 2008), with Florida leading the entire region (4,530 in 2008).. 2008)
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