The CDC has stated that the declining overall HIV rate seen in recent years is likely driven by a rising rate of full suppression of the virus among those living with HIV in the United States. Prior to 2008, HIV incidence was essentially stable in the United States for the decade following the beginning of the modern era of combination antiretroviral (ARV) treatment. This new estimate, therefore, represents a disappointing reduction in that hopeful figure. Published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, the report is a more precise and granular version of reports on epidemic trends that CDC officials presented at the 2017 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Seattle a year ago.Īt that time, the agency estimated that HIV incidence declined 18 percent between 20.
These figures come from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) new, in-depth analysis of epidemic trends in the United States. During this period, HIV incidence among 25- to 34-year-old men who have sex with men (MSM) increased by an estimated 45 percent while the rate increased 25 percent among Latino MSM. While the national annual HIV infection rate dropped by an estimated 15 percent between 20, a few key subgroups saw a rise in yearly new HIV infections, also known as HIV incidence.
