New HIV infections in the United States fell by 12 percent in 2021 compared to 2017, continuing a decline driven by fewer cases in younger people, especially gay and bisexual men, official estimates showed Tuesday.
Infections fell from some 36,500 to 32,100, with the starkest decrease -- 34 percent -- among 13-to-24-year-olds, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data."Our nation's HIV prevention efforts continue to move in the right direction," said CDC Director Rochelle Walensky.
One of the greatest indicators of improvement was the rise in access to PrEP , pills or shots taken to prevent HIV infection from sex or injection drug use. But the disparities in access were stark when broken down by race. Just 11 percent of the Black population who could benefit from PrEP were prescribed it, compared to 78 percent of the white population.
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