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How many people in the United States currently have hiv/aids?


not in the world, and not the people who have died from it, but the people who are currently living with it?

ONE MILLION PEOPLE----
United States:

* An estimated one million people are currently living with HIV in the United States, with approximately 40,000 new infections occurring each year.
* 70 percent of these new infections occur in men and 30 percent occur in women.
* By race, 54 percent of the new infections in the United States occur among African Americans, and 64 percent of the new infections in women occur in African American women.
* 75 percent of the new infections in women are heterosexually transmitted.
* Half of all new infections in the United States occur in people 25 years of age or younger.

Not as many as in South Africa LOL or Africa LOL

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