HIV/AIDS

  • Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is a virus that attacks the body’s immune system. There are an estimated 1,189,700 people living in the United States with an estimated 36,740 new diagnoses annually.2 If HIV goes untreated, it can leads to a diagnoses of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)—the most severe state of HIV and the diagnoses patients receive when they develop certain Opportunistic Infections (OIs) or their CD4 cell count drops below 200 cells per milliliter of blood.

Infographic on HIV disparities

HIV/AIDS