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A new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has just been released that shows that the number of people living in America with HIV or AIDS is higher than was originally thought.
The study was released just ahead of a massive international AIDS conference being held in Mexico City.
Not all is bad news however, as although there is an influx of AIDS cases by nearly a quarter million people since numbers were last comprised, the number of yearly cases being reported is significantly less each year.
There are new methods of identifying HIV/AIDS cases, a fact that researchers say maybe to blame for the increase of cases actually being reported.
There is currently no cure for the AIDS virus, but despite this fact, new drugs have been developed which greatly enhance the lives of people living with the virus.
“Over 95 percent of people living with HIV are not transmitting to someone else in a given year,” said David R. Holtgrave, an expert on AIDS prevention at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. “What that says is the transmission rate has been kept very low by prevention efforts.”
“These data corroborate what many of us suspected — that the epidemic is worse than we thought. However, it doesn’t seem to be getting worse,” said Jennifer Kates, director of HIV policy at the Kaiser Family Foundation in Washington.
Each year, the CDC spends more than 750 million dollars on HIV prevention programs.
