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\u2022 There are approximately 1.1 million people living with HIV\/AIDS in the U.S.
\n\u2022 It is estimated that almost one-fifth (18.1%) of those people don\u2019t know they have it.
\n\u2022 Since the start of the AIDS epidemic, 1.7 million Americans have been infected with HIV and more than 650,000 have died.
\n\u2022 50,000 new HIV infections occur in the U.S. each year.
\n\u2022 Men who have sex with men (MSM) account for the majority of new HIV\/AIDS diagnoses although MSM comprise only around 4% of the U.S.\u00a0 \u00a0 male population.
\n\u2022 African Americans accounted for 47% of new HIV infections diagnosed in 2011, although they comprise only 14% of the population.
\n\u2022 The HIV infection rate among African American women is nearly four times higher than the rate among white women.
\n\u2022 The infection rate among Latinos was three times higher than the rate among whites in 2010.
\n\u2022 In 2011, more than 20% of people diagnosed with HIV in the U.S. were women.
\n\u2022 The vast majority of newly diagnosed HIV-positive women contracted the virus through heterosexual sex.
\n\u2022 In 2010, 31% of all new infections occurred among people aged 25\u201334, followed by individuals aged 13\u201324 at 26%.<\/p>\n
Source: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/p>\n
Worldwide<\/h4>\n
\u2022 More than 35 million people now live with HIV\/AIDS. David was active in the AIDS activist movement in the early days of the epidemic.\u00a0 He also received help from a number of organizations during his illness.\u00a0 A few are listed below:<\/p>\n Broadway Cares-Equity Fights AIDS<\/a> How To Survive A Plague<\/a> HIV History Project <\/a> Ashes Action October 11, 1992 March on the Bush Whitehouse<\/a> AIDS Community Research Initiative of America (ACRIA) AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) ACT V: The End of AIDS AIDS.gov AID for AIDS International AIDS Foundation of Chicago (AFC) AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania AIDS Policy Project AIDS United amFAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research Andrey Rylkov Foundation for Health and Social Justice (ARF) AVAC Black AIDS Institute (BAI) Center for Health, Human Rights & Development (CEHURD) Center for Artistic Activism Center for Health and Gender Equality (CHANGE) The Center for HIV Law and Policy Delhi Network of Positive People (DNP+) Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) Equal Education FasterCures GMHC Greater Than Aids Health GAP HIV Prevention Justice Alliance (HIV PJA) Housing Works International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) International HIV\/AIDS Alliance International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC) M\u00e9dicins Sans Fronti\u00e8res (a.k.a. Doctors Without Borders) ONE Partners in Health Pathfinder International Planned Parenthood PSI Queerocracy Results Save the Children The Sero Project Sex Worker Education and Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT) Sex Workers Project Staying Alive Foundation Student Global AIDS Campaign (SGAC) Treatment Action Campaign (tac) Treatment Action Group (TAG) Urban Justice Center Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (uaem) Women\u2019s Legal Centre The facts about\u00a0AIDS\/HIV Although AIDS seems a rather distant issue to us today, worldwide and even in our own communities it is still a significant health issue. United States \u2022 There are approximately 1.1 million people living with HIV\/AIDS in the U.S. \u2022 It is estimated that almost one-fifth (18.1%) …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-33","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidserko.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidserko.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidserko.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidserko.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidserko.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/davidserko.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1644,"href":"http:\/\/davidserko.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions\/1644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidserko.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u2022 3.3 million of them are under the age of 15.
\n\u2022 In 2012, an estimated 2.3 million people were newly infected with HIV.
\n\u2022 260,000 were under the age of 15.
\n\u2022 Every day nearly 6,300 people contract HIV\u2014nearly 262 every hour.
\n\u2022 In 2012, 1.6 million people died from AIDS.
\n\u2022 210,000 of them were under the age of 15.
\n\u2022 Since the beginning of the epidemic, more than 75 million people have contracted HIV and nearly 36 million have died of HIV-related causes.
\nSource: American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR)\u00a0 2013<\/p>\n![\"NYC](\"http:\/\/davidserko.com\/images\/health.jpg\")
Resources<\/h3>\n
Theater Groups Responding to AIDS<\/h3>\n
\nActors Fund<\/a><\/p>\nFilms<\/h3>\n
\nUnited In Anger<\/a>
\nWe Were Here<\/a><\/p>\nBackground<\/h3>\n
\nRon Goldberg\u2019s \u201cBoy With The Bullhorn\u201d memoir of Act Up and AIDS activism<\/a><\/p>\nAct Up Protest Videos<\/h3>\n
\nMore Ashes <\/a>
\nWall St II March 24, 1988 (David was arrested at the protest)<\/a>
\nMore Wall St II<\/a>
\nMarch on Kennebunkport September 1991<\/a>
\nDay of Desperation Grand Central Station January 23, 1991<\/a>
\nTarget City Hall March 23, 1989<\/a><\/p>\nOrganizations Worldwide<\/h3>\n
\nacria.org<\/p>\n
\nactupny.org |\u00a0 actupphilly.org | actup-sf.org | actupboston.org<\/p>\n
\nactfive.org<\/p>\n
\nAIDS.gov
\n1-800-CDC-INFO (1-800-232-04635)<\/p>\n
\naidforaids.org<\/p>\n
\naidschicago.org<\/p>\n
\naidslawpa.org<\/p>\n
\naidspolicyproject.org<\/p>\n
\naidsunited.org<\/p>\n
\namfar.org<\/p>\n
\nen.rylkov-fond.org<\/p>\n
\navac.org<\/p>\n
\nblackaids.org<\/p>\n
\ncehurd.org<\/p>\n
\nartisticactivism.org<\/p>\n
\ngenderhealth.org<\/p>\n
\nhivlawandpolicy.org<\/p>\n
\ndnpplus.org<\/p>\n
\npedaids.org<\/p>\n
\nequaleducation.org.za<\/p>\n
\nfastercures.org<\/p>\n
\ngmhc.org<\/p>\n
\ngreaterthan.org<\/p>\n
\nhealthgap.org<\/p>\n
\npreventionjustice.org<\/p>\n
\nhousingworks.org<\/p>\n
\nIavi.org<\/p>\n
\naidsalliance.org<\/p>\n
\nitpcglobal.org<\/p>\n
\nmsf.org | doctorswithoutborders.org<\/p>\n
\none.org<\/p>\n
\npih.org<\/p>\n
\npathfind.org<\/p>\n
\nplannedparenthood.org<\/p>\n
\npsi.org<\/p>\n
\nqueerocracy.org<\/p>\n
\nresults.org<\/p>\n
\nsavethechildren.org<\/p>\n
\nseroproject.com<\/p>\n
\nsweat.org\/za<\/p>\n
\nsexworkersproject.org<\/p>\n
\nstayingalivefoundation.org<\/p>\n
\nstudentglobalaidscampaign.org<\/p>\n
\ntac.org\/za<\/p>\n
\ntreatmentactiongroup.org<\/p>\n
\nurbanjustice.org<\/p>\n
\nuaem.org<\/p>\n
\nwlce.co.za<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"