Sharing needles can spread viruses through blood or body fluids.

Drug use can also lead to poor judgement and risky behaviors.

People born after 1980 have never known a world without it.

More than 1.1 million people in the United States are living with HIV.

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Health experts say that 100% of the recently diagnosed people were infected by sharing needles to inject themselves with the prescription pain medication Opana. population, Hispanic/Latinos account for 21% of the 50,000 new HIV infections in this country every day.

Hepatitis can lead to: However, this does not include the number of youth that were already diagnosed or those that have not (yet) been diagnosed.

This is why a person may appear healthy or uninfected when, in fact, they carry the HIV virus and can pass it on to others through sexual activity or needle sharing.

A medical test is the only way to know if a person has HIV.

AIDS is diagnosed when a person has one or more of these infections and a low number of CD4 cells in their body.

HIV/AIDS has been a global epidemic for more than 30 years.