HIV/AIDS, by the numbers

August 7, 2012 at 2:43AM

0 -- Perinatal (near the time of birth) transmissions in Minnesota in 2011

11 -- Minnesota infants perinatally infected since 1996

80 -- Perinatally infected Minnesotans living with HIV/AIDS

100-200 -- Infants perinatally infected in the United States each year

4,800 -- Children in the United States who have died of AIDS since start of the epidemic in 1981

8,460 -- Children in the United States diagnosed with AIDS since the start of the epidemic

Sources: Minnesota Department of Health and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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