HIV and AIDS

AIDSVu offers a variety of ready-made materials and data sets to help illustrate the impact of HIV in the United States. This report presents the state of HIV/AIDS in the United States using 2012 data.

This Vital Signs highlights the importance of expanding access to SSPs, which provide sterile needles and syringes and ideally offer many other comprehensive services to help improve the health of PWID and their communities, such as treatment for substance use disorder, HIV, and hepatitis testing and linkage to treatment, and safe disposal of used syringes.

Video on the development and use of condoms.

Achieving zero stigma is a goal of all HIV prevention and treatment services.  In response, this dashboard will visually represent stigma-related data for the communities most impacted by HIV and to demonstrate progress to mitigating stigmas across different geographic regions. Presently, the dashboard showcases data collected from cisgender gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men throughout the United States collected through the American Men’s Internet Survey.

This webpage discusses how Atlanta and its counties, Gwinnett, Cobb, DeKalb and Fulton, have been identified by the federal government as one of over 45 counties in the nation with the highest incidence of HIV infections.

This webpage discusses the HIV care continuum and how it is a public health model that outlines the stages of care that people living with HIV go through from diagnosis to achieving and maintaining viral suppression. Guiding an individual through the care continuum is key to helping them achieve viral suppression, which not only helps them experience better health outcomes but also reduces their risk of transmitting HIV to others.

This webpage discusses health equity as it pertains to HIV.

This webpage discusses how the South experiences a higher burden of HIV compared to other regions across the country, especially among communities of color.

This webpage discusses how HIV has a disproportionate impact on the Hispanic/Latinx population. The Hispanic/Latinx community faces unique cultural and societal challenges in HIV prevention, treatment, and care, including language barriers and mistrust of the health care system.

This webpage discusses how the Black community in the United States faces unique structural and societal barriers to accessing HIV prevention services. As a result, HIV has a disproportionate impact on the Black population.