What percent of the US population is infected with HIV/AIDS?
What percent of the world population is infected with HIV/AIDS?
In the US, about 850 thousand cases or .61% as of 1999.
For details by countries around the globe:
“What percent of the US population is infected with HIV/AIDS?”
Nobody knows. The federal government proposed a study to answer that question in the early 1980s but there was such an outcry that the study never took place.
The best estimates today are based on compilations of data from various sources such as prevalence rates among women giving birth, special studies, etc.
“What percent of the world population is infected with HIV/AIDS?”
Nobody knows. However, you can get some idea by looking at the exhaustive comilation of seroprevalence data published by the Bureau of the Census on line at http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/hivaidsn.html
I don’t remember this. (No big surprise there.) What was the reason for the outcry?
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Privacy.
Privacy. Also, I meant the early 1990s, not 1980s.
This was a time before treatment when people avoided testing because if they found out they were positive they would just be depressed and stigmatized and get no personal benefit. I recall that the state of New York offered free, anonymous testing (there was a government effort to provide free anonymous testing so that people wouldn’t donate blood as a way to get a free test) but people who phoned in to inquire about getting such a test were actively discouraged from getting tested. Things have changed
Do all people who are HIV+ eventually develop AIDS? What’s the longest period of latency thus far documented?
The answer used to be almost all- & w/in 7-9 years. Things have changed greatly over the past few years w/ all the new treatments. I’m sure there are numerous sites here-others will know them, sorry I don’t.
I do know there are some few who have been HIV positive for 20 years- & not gotten sick-no one knows why.
Well, for one thing, medication has improved by light-years…
Marley23 - isn’t HIV changing?I thought we could assume that, in our great-great-great grandchildren’s time, HIV would be similar to syphilis. (i.e., Frequently dormant and not troublesome for decades after the infection.)
Marley-sorry what I meant was w/no treatment-just the body’s immune system. Some of these folks have been studied for obvious reasons.
Most states in the US did and still do offer free and anonymous testing for HIV through the Public Health Department. I have no idea who anyone would be “discouraged” from being tested.
To get information on estimates of HIV/AIDS prevalence in the US (and I think they have world stats, too), go to www.cdc.gov and look under “statistics” or “surveillance” or something like that. Another good site for HIV/AIDS info. is http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu
My understanding is that it’s mutated some, yes.
I ain’t no doctor, but I don’t think HIV is untroublesome in and of itself at all. Even if it is, you can pass it on, which is a large danger. I wouldn’t assume any such thing… though again, people with more medical knowledge are in a better position to comment.
HIV is mutating constantly - even within one host - and there are different clades, or subtypes, as well. Some types seem to be more virulent than others, but I don’t know that there is any evidence that HIV is becoming any less deadly. With the current antiretroviral therapies, however, people are living much longer. Sadly, much of the world still does not have access to these drugs.