The AIDS PANDEMIC is formally recognized by medical professionals in San Francisco.

By 1992, HIV was the leading cause of death among men ages 25–44 in the United States.

By 2019, it dropped to the ninth leading cause of death in people ages 25–34 and the 10th leading cause for those ages 35–44. Similar declines have been seen even in the hardest-hit parts of Africa.

In 1992, HIV was the leading cause of death among men ages 25–44 in the United States.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 36 million people have died of HIV since the start of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. In 2020, 37.7 million people were living with HIV, and around 680,000 died. As grim as these figures are, that’s still down from the 1.3 million people who died of HIV just 10 years earlier.