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Primary Care HIV Prevention Advocacy: From Facts and Knowledge to Practice and Policy - Presented
Henrie M. Treadwell, Ph.D., Director of Community Voices

By the end of 2003, an estimated 1,039,000 to 1,185,000 persons in the United States were living with HIV/AIDS. In 2005, 38,096 new HIV/AIDS cases were diagnosed in 33 states. Seventy-four percent of new HIV/AIDS diagnoses were among men while 67 percent of HIV/AIDS cases among men resulted from male-to-male sexual contact.  Eighteen percent of HIV/AIDS cases among men resulted from Injection Drug Use (IDU) and nineteen percent of HIV/AIDS cases among women resulted from (IDU).  (view presentation for more statistics)



 

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