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Few Americans with HIV Have Virus Under Control
Only 28% of the 1.2 million Americans living with HIV have the infection under control, increasing the risk that they will spread the disease to others, U.S. health officials said Tuesday.
A big part of the problem is that 1 in 5 U.S. adult infected with HIV do not know it. People can be infected with the AIDS virus for years without developing symptoms. Of those who are aware, only half receive ongoing medical care and treatment, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in its latest report on HIV in America.
“It’s now very clear that we have the tools to stop HIV in an individual and to stop the spread of HIV in a community,” CDC Director Dr. Thomas Frieden said in a telephone interview. “We also know that taking treatment for HIV can prevent people from progressing to AIDS and from developing many of the serious complications of HIV, which unfortunately does remain an incurable infection,” Frieden said.
On this upcoming Worlds AIDS Day, December 1st, we try to bring these issues to light. Education & testing is the key to combating this disease.
Tom Thayer
source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45478404/ns/health-aids/
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