Korean-American medical student
Posts tagged epidemiology
What percent of the people in the United States are infected with HIV?
Sep 19th
There are ~1.2 million persons currently documented as living with HIV. The slight problem with this figure is that ~25% of HIV-positive persons don’t know they’re infected, so estimates should really start more in the ballpark of 1.5-1.7 million. This translates to an average incidence of ~0.6% among adults. The number of new infections per…