FEBRUARY 15, 2022

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Lifetime Risk for HIV in America? 1:120

By Marie Rosenthal, MS

Despite the tremendous progress made in reducing new HIV transmissions in the United States overall, the disease continues to affect some groups more than others, according to Sonia Singh, PhD, an epidemiologist with the CDC’s Division of HIV Prevention, who calculated the lifetime risk for HIV among various groups.

“Overall, we estimated a person’s possibility of receiving an HIV diagnosis in the U.S. improved compared with the previous analysis, from one