More Than 90 Percent Of People With Hiv Diagnoses In New York City Receive Treatment Mayor Says
Nationally, only 85 percent of the more than 1 million Americans with HIV are aware they’re sick, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). As of 2015, 73 percent received treatment and only 60 percent achieved suppression of the virus. New York City, the country’s largest city, is home to the biggest HIV population, according to local health officials. But last year, new cases in the city dropped to less than 2,000 for the first time since annual reporting began almost twenty years ago, according to a Monday press release from Mayor Bill de Blasio’s office....