The number of new HIV infections annually in the United States has dropped by an estimate 11 percent from 2010 to 2015, though it didn’t fall enough to meet goals set by the Obama administration’s 2010 comprehensive national HIV/AIDS strategy, new research from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the University of Pennsylvania.
The goals called for a 25 percent reduction in the incidence of HIV, which is now considered a manageable chronic disease though it disproportionately affects gay men, young and transgender people, and black and Hispanic Americans and those who live in the South.
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