On National Youth HIV & AIDS Awareness Day, Protection and Prevention are Stressed, as 1 in 5 New U.S. Infections Occur in Young People Aged 13-24
The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reports that 26% of the almost 50,000, (roughly 1 in 5) newly diagnosed cases of HIV in the United States were young people between the ages 13 and 24. Children under the age of 13 tend to acquire the infection via mother to child transmission …