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As of August 14, 2014, the Ebola virus has infected an estimated 1,975 individuals across four countries in West Africa, leading to 1,069 deaths (including three Americans). The official reported numbers, frightening as they are, likely vastly underestimate the true magnitude of the outbreak.
Number of Adults/Adolescents Estimated to be Living with an HIV Diagnosis, Top 10 States, United States, year-end 2010 Download Source CDC, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention Atlas.
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.
This Visualizing Health Policy infographic provides a snapshot of the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
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 examines the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Washington, D.C., one of the areas hardest hit by HIV in the United States. Fact Sheet: July 2012 (.
The Kaiser Family Foundation convened a public forum to take stock of the global health challenge presented by TB, to examine the limitations and challenges of current treatment options, their limitations and challenges, and to discuss the search for new and better TB drugs and other tools. The event began with a screening of a short segment of a new FRONTLINE television documentary, TB Silent Killer, which focuses on the Southern African nation of Swaziland, the country with the world's highest incidence of TB, and delivers a portrait of the people living at the pandemic's epicenter.
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.
This tracker provides up-to-date data on federal Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) funding, including an overview of funding mechanisms by year, agency, grant mechanism, and jurisdiction. It will be updated over time.
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