Study: Annual HIV Infection Rate Dropped by 33 Percent in a Decade
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Wavebreak Media/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — A new study indicates that the annual number of HIV diagnoses dropped by 33 percent between 2002 and 2011.
The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, analyzed data from the National HIV Surveillance System and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 2002, the study found that the rate of HIV diagnosis in the U.S. was 24.1 cases per 100,000 population. That figure fell to 16.1 cases per 100,000 population by 2011.
It was not clear what caused the decrease in HIV diagnoses. The figures only correlate to newly-diagnosed HIV cases each year, not to the overall HIV population.
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