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Proportion of AIDS Diagnoses, by Race/Ethnicity, United States, 1985-2011 Download Source Kaiser Family Foundation, based on CDC, Data Request; 2006. CDC, HIV Surveillance Report, Vol. 23; February 2013.
Rates of New HIV Infections per 100,000, by Race/Ethnicity and Sex, United States, 2010 Download Source CDC, HIV Surveillance Supplemental Report, Vol. 17, No. 4; December 2012.
Rates of New HIV Infections per 100,000, by Race/Ethnicity, United States, 2010 Download Source CDC, HIV Surveillance Supplemental Report, Vol. 17, No. 4; December 2012.
Snapshot of the U.S. HIV/AIDS Epidemic Download Source CDC, HIV Surveillance Supplemental Report; Vol. 18, No. 5; October 2013. CDC, HIV Surveillance Supplemental Report; Vol. 17, No. 4; December 2012. CDC, HIV Surveillance Report, Vol. 23; February 2013. CDC, Fact Sheet – HIV in the United States: The Stages of Care; July 2012.
Ebola virus has a unique set of characteristics that determine how and why its spreads, and how deadly it can be. To better understand Ebola, a new Kaiser Family Foundation infographic compares it to twelve other infectious diseases that continue to represent public health challenges today and offers five key takeaways about the disease.
This fact sheet provides a snapshot of global polio eradication efforts and examines the U.S. government’s role in addressing polio worldwide.
This Policy Insight take a deeper look at several key measures of the impact of the current Ebola epidemic in West Africa, including estimates of current cases, prevalence and death rates, as well as a consideration of the future projections of Ebola’s burden in the months to come.
In the latest post in the Policy Insights series, Jen Kates and Josh Michaud take a look at several key measures of the Ebola epidemic’s impact and assess future projections of Ebola’s burden in the months to come. Previous columns in the Policy Insights series are also available kff.org.
This Visualizing Health Policy infographic provides a snapshot of the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
This weekend, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed more U.S. cases of the latest international outbreak – coronavirus – which started in Wuhan, China. Josh Michaud, an Associate Director for Global Health Policy at KFF, offers perspective on the U.S. role and how response to this outbreak compares to others, such as SARS and the Ebola epidemic.
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