Although new HIV infections declined 12% in 2021 compared with 2017, efforts toward equity are "vitally needed," a CDC ... Latino and white women who contracted it through heterosexual contact. ...

This article originally appeared on Undark.. I n 2019, one of America's top public health officials went on the road, promoting an ambitious plan to slash new HIV infections by 90 percent by 2030 ...

There were about 34,800 new HIV infections in the U.S. in 2019, compared to some 130,400 a year during the epidemic's peak in the mid-1980s.

HIV is transmitted via contact with bodily fluids from an infected person, including blood and semen, which is why it is most often contracted through sex or the sharing of needles.

More than 56,000 people living in areas of the United States with a high burden of HIV ordered at least one HIV test from a CDC mailing program in 8 months last year, according to data reported ...