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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports over one million AIDS cases have been filed in the 50 states of the USA, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Of those with known residence, 85% were reported in major metropolitan areas.

New York has accounted for around a fifth of all cases, with Los Angeles (60,583 cases), and Miami (58,554) also providing substantial numbers.

In 2007, the highest rates of new AIDS diagnoses were in Miami (33.1 per 100,000 people), New Orleans (31.5), Baton Rouge (31.4) and Washington (30.5). read more ...

HIV infection in humans is now pandemic. The Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the World Health Organization (WHO) estimate that AIDS has killed more than 25 million people since it was first recognized on December 1, 1981. As of January 2008 It is estimated that approximately 33.2 million are now infected with HIV.

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