By Ethan Covey
The annual number of HIV infections diagnosed in the United States has declined nearly 75% since the peak of the epidemic in the mid-1980s, according to the CDC. However, the study epidemiologists noted that disparities exist and, in some cases, have grown worse over recent years (MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2021;70[22]:801-806).
“This is the first study to present the estimated annual number of new HIV infections in the U.S. from 1981 to 2019 in one publication,” said