Providing Antiretroviral Therapy for HIV Infection

Abstract

Dramatic declines in the incidence of AIDS and the number of deaths from this disease began in the United States in 1996, in association with the widespread use of potent combinations of antiretroviral drugs. Subsequently, the rates of decline have slowed and begun to level. As of June 2000, more than 300,000 people were estimated to be living with AIDS. Each year, there are about 40,000 new infections with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and 16,000 deaths from AIDS. About one third of the 800,000 to 900,000 Americans estimated to be living with HIV or AIDS do not know they . . .