*Aim to reduce the number of HIV infections by 90% by 2030.
By Pamela Cruz. Pen sula 360 Press [P360P]
As of 2018, there were 1,039,680 people living with HIV in the United States, of which 37,864 people were diagnosed with the same disease, 76.4 percent of those residents were men, 23.6 percent women, however, those most affected were communities of color, which shows the continuing inequities regarding the virus.
The percentage of people living with HIV, by race and/or ethnicity in 2018 was 40.6 percent among African Americans, 23.7 percent among Hispanics or Latinos, and 29.2 percent among Caucasians.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), despite overall progress in reducing new infections among gay and bisexual men, the HIV epidemic continued and was most severe among these groups in the African American and Latino communities.
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