It also serves as reminder that there is a long way to go in fighting it.
According Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1 person in the United States becomes infected with HIV every 9 minutes and 30 seconds. That's more than 56,000 new infections every year.
Another startling fact about HIV: 1 in 5 people infected, or 20% of the 1 million people in the U.S. living with HIV, don't realize that they are infected.
For more information:
- White House World AIDS Day 2009 Press Conference
- CDC HIV/AIDS
- CDC Global HIV/AIDS
Find out information on the U.S. response to the Global AIDS epidemic, as well as care, prevention, treatment, and partnership programs. - CDC Basic HIV Information
Learn about HIV/AIDS, how it is and is not transmitted, the risk factors for HIV transmission, preventing transmission and the symptoms of HIV infection. - CDC Fact Sheets: HIV/AIDS in the United States
- CDC National HIV Testing Database
Find an HIV test site near you from the National HIV Testing Database, a CDC-sponsored service available 24 hours a day.
Recursos Nacionales para la Prueba del VIH y ETS
Encontrar un sitio de prueba cerca de usted, un servicio de los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades
- Act Against AIDS
Be a Part of the Solution. - AIDS.gov
AIDS.gov's mission is to improve access to Federal HIV/AIDS information programs serving minority and other communities most at-risk for, or living with, HIV, through a variety of new media channels, and to support the use of new media tools by Federal and community partners.
