Young teens, drug users, and gays are a few who are at a higher risk of the infection. Although there have been a great progress in fighting against the epidemic  compared to the early times, but still a lot many challenges are to be met.

      At the end of 2005, the CDC estimates that 437,982 people were living with AIDS in the USA comprising of 44 percent of African Americans, 35 percent of Caucasians, 19 percent of Hispanics, and 1 percent of other races. Around 77 percent of adults and adolescents affected by AIDS are men. An estimated 1,411 children aged under 13 were living with AIDS at the end of 2005. The vast majority of these children acquired HIV from their mothers during pregnancy, labor, delivery or breastfeeding. Estimated deaths in 2005 were 17,011 due to AIDS.

       Since the beginning of the epidemic, an estimated 550,394 people with AIDS have died in the USA. At the end of 2005, the CDC estimated that there were 476,749 people living with HIV/AIDS in the 37 areas that have a history of confidential name-based HIV reporting, based on reported diagnoses and deaths. However, the total number of people living in the USA with HIV/AIDS is thought to be between 1,039,000 and 1,185,000.The disparity in figures is due to several factors such as confidential name based data has not been generated in all the states, anonymous and home based tests have not been included in this and one in every four people living with AIDS has not ever been diagnosed with the infection.

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