Shelby County breaks down new HIV numbers

Young said she had called the student health clinic to inquire about testing and was told it could be up to $100, depending on her insurance, a steep price tag for a college student. “Further, if we look at the state of Alabama, we have about 13,000 patients living with HIV”.

The CDC noted that trends in new HIV diagnoses are influenced by testing rates.

“Know how to talk to someone about it. Let’s stop HIV together”, one student said.

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, there are two types of self-HIV tests: the Home Access HIV-1 Test System and the OraQuick In-home HIV test.

The number of people who inject drugs and share needles has remained at a similar level to that of 10 years ago, despite the use of syringe services programs (SSPs) increasing substantially during that period.

In the USA, gay and bisexual men of color are at increased risk of contracting HIV. City, state and government grants will help with surveillance of hepatitis numbers, as well as increasing testing and access to the newer but costly medications that can reduce hepatitis’s viral load to almost nothing.

Because many people can go months or years before being diagnosed with HIV, Watson said almost one out of four people with HIV are also diagnosed with AIDS within three months.

In Canada, the population at greatest risk of contracting HIV remains men who have sex with men, accounting for 54 per cent of HIV-positive people.

More than 100 injection drug users were infected with HIV in early 2015 in rural Scott County, Indiana. The first case of HIV infection in a human was identified in 1959. Cases still are falling in blacks and Hispanics.

She believes the vaccine they are busy working on at the moment will help to win the fight against HIV.

Chip Eakins, Advocacy Coordinator for the Philadelphia Center, says there are now more than 2,100 HIV cases in the Shreveport-Bossier area alone.