released some encouraging statistics — the rate of HIV-related deaths among people 13 years and older in the U.S. fell by nearly half from 2010 to 2017.The age-adjusted HIV-related death rate (the number of HIV-related deaths per 1,000 people with HIV) dropped from 9.1 to 4.7, a decline of 48 percent.
In 2017, 16,358 people with HIV died, though only 5,534 of those deaths from HIV-related causes.The findings, published in the CDC's Morbitity and Mortality Weekly Report, still found disturbing racial discrepancies, specifically in regards to Black Americans.
But there was even some good news when it came to African-Americans and HIV."Although African Americans had a substantially higher HIV-related death rate than most other groups in 2017,.