Originally published by our sister publication Infectious Disease Special Edition
New cases of HIV infection declined 12% from 2017 to 2021, with estimated annual infections totaling 36,500 in 2017 falling to about 32,100, according to a new report by the CDC.
Another positive finding from the report was that the number of people using HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) nearly doubled from 2017 to 2021. In 2017, about 13% of 1.2 million people were taking PrEP, compared with roughly 30% in