Ventura County Public Health To Host World Aids Day Health Fair, Dec. 1

Roughly half of all new HIV infections originate with the 20 percent of people who are living with the virus but are unaware of their infection, said Craig Webb, VCPH HIV/AIDS Program Manager. It is our goal to find those individuals and direct them into care, counseling and antiretroviral treatment which, in turn, will effectively reduce the risk of them transmitting the virus to others. Since the first cases of HIV/AIDS were reported 32 years ago in 1981, the number of people in the U.S. infected with HIV has grown to more than 1.2 million. One in five people with HIV does not know that they are infected and every 9.5 minutes someone new in the U.S. You will find the original content at this website http://www.vcstar.com/news/2013/nov/19/ventura-county-public-health-to-host-world-aids-da/
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