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Rising HIV Infections: The Urgent Threat to Ending the Epidemic

More than 40 years have passed since the CDC reported the first cases of HIV in the United States, with significant scientific and medical progress made through collaboration among people living with HIV, healthcare providers, advocates, government agencies, and affected communities.

Despite this progress, rising infection rates, particularly among Black and Latine communities, pose a serious threat to ending the epidemic. Historically, people lived only two to ten years after receiving an HIV diagnosis.

Today, we stand closer than ever to ending HIV.

The epidemic has seen extraordinary breakthroughs, but the rising infection rates require urgent attention to achieve the goal of ending HIV.

Author's summary: Rising HIV infections threaten epidemic progress.

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