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Rising HIV Infections: The Urgent Threat to Ending the Epidemic

Over 40 years have passed since the CDC reported the first cases of HIV in the United States, marking significant scientific and medical progress.

Collaboration among people living with HIV, healthcare providers, advocates, government agencies, and affected communities made these breakthroughs possible.

Today, despite being closer to ending HIV, rising infection rates, particularly among Black and Latine communities, pose a serious threat to this goal.

At the start of the epidemic, people lived only two to ten years after receiving an HIV diagnosis.

These breakthroughs were made possible through collaboration among people living with HIV, healthcare providers, advocates, government agencies, and the communities most affected by the epidemic.

Author's summary: Rising HIV infections threaten to end the epidemic.

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