Episode 192: HIV Trends & Statins

So to start us off, can you give us a high-level overview of the new CDC HIV epidemiology data and why these updates are important for providers to understand right now?

Yeah, so this is the annual update that comes out from CDC on the new HIV numbers.

And this is through 2024.

So there's a couple of different sections of it.

But what I'm going to highlight a couple of things is some of the major big concepts.

So for 2024, the HIV diagnosis, these are among people who are aged 13 and older.

in the United States and then in seven territories and freely associated states, as they call them, there was just under 40,000 HIV, new HIV diagnosis.

So 38,793 new HIV diagnoses in 2024.

So the most important thing with that, Marianne, is who is most infected or who are the most new patients living with HIV? Males, 30,975.

That was 80%.

Persons aged 25 to 34 was about 37%, so just over 14,000.

Again, that's typical of what we've seen in the past as well.

Black African-American persons was just under 40% at 39%, but just over 15,000 new patients.

And if you look at people who, their risk for HIV infection, the most common risk, which has been pretty steady over many years, about 65%.

was male-to-male sexual contact with just over 25,000 new people living with HIV.

32 geographically in the South, and we'll talk a little bit about this later on, but at the time of the diagnosis, the people residing in the South was over 50%, so 51% of new infections, just under 20,000 new infections were from the South.

So that's obviously just kind of some of the top-line highlights of some of the major findings from the 2024 CDC data that was released.

Let's break that down a bit more.