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Citing Successes, Challenges, YSPH Panel Marks World AIDS Day
In the early 1980s, “AIDS was just a whisper in the corner of a gay bar.”
Within a few years it grew into a global epidemic, and today, despite many victories in the fight against HIV/AIDS, some 1.2 million people in the United States alone live with the virus. Every 9.5 minutes another person becomes infected, totaling more than 50,000 new infections annually. Meanwhile, the brunt of the epidemic disproportionately affects black women and intravenous drug users.