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News from @CDCgov shows that deaths due to HIV dropped by nearly 50% from 2010 to 2017. But in the era of modern HIV treatment, it is completely unacceptable that nearly 6,000 Americans died of HIV related causes in 2017. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/19/health/hiv-aids-death-rates-cdc.html (from @apoorva_nyc) THREAD
While the decline is undoubtedly good news, we cannot ignore the massive racial, gender, and geographic disparities in who dies (and who doesn't) from HIV in the US today. This multidecade failure is ongoing crisis, and must be addressed head on by the @CDCgov and @DrDemetre.
It is astonishing that a black person in Mississippi is more than six times as likely to die from HIV than a white person in New York. And a cis-women is 20% more likely to die than a cis-man (no trans specific data disclosed).
And while the US is getting better at treating HIV, it is WAY behind almost every higher income country in the world, and many middle and lower income countries as well. Only 53% of people in the US are accessing effective HIV therapy (vs. e.g. 73% in the UK)