• As of the year 2000, nearly one million people in the U.S. were confirmed to be HIV-positive.

• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that 2.2 million Americans now carry the HIV virus but do not yet have symptoms.

• Each year, about 40,000 new HIV infections occur in the U.S.

• AIDS is a leading cause of death for American men and women between the ages of 25 and 44.

• Through June 2000, 438,795 people in the U.S. had died from AIDS (374,422 men and 64,373 women).

• By the end of 2000, 36.1 million people worldwide were living with HIV/AIDS, with the vast majority living in developing countries.

• Through 2000, 21.8 million people worldwide have died from AIDS.

• Between 1991 and 1996, there were more new cases of AIDS among people older than 50 than those between ages 13 and 49. Today, 11% of all new cases of AIDS in the U.S. are now in people over the age of 50.

• The HIV carrier rate in the U.S. is now 1 carrier for every 100 to 200 people.

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