Get tested. Know your status. Act Against AIDS.
HIV is a national emergency.
- Every 9 1/2 minutes (on average), someone in the United States is infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
- In 2006, and estimated 56,300 people became infected with HIV.
- More than 1 million people in the US are living with HIV.
- Of those 1 million people living with HIV, 1 in 5 do not know that they are infected.
- Despite new therapies, people with HIV still develop AIDS.
- Over 1 million people in the US have been diagnosed with AIDS.
- More than 14,000 people with AIDS still die each year in the US.
Anyone can get HIV
HIV infects men and women, gay, straight and bisexual, Black, Latino, white — anyone can get HIV. With the current increase in new cases among women of color and young gay men, it’s time for everyone – even in communities that may never have thought of HIV as "our problem" before – to join the fight against HIV and AIDS.
No one has to get HIV
HIV is a completely preventable infection. For yourself, your family and your community, take these six steps to BEAT AIDS:
- Get educated: learn what HIV is, and how it is transmitted.
- Get aware: understand your own personal risk for HIV.
- Get tested: get the test so you can know for sure.
- Get treated: if you’re HIV-positive, early treatment will extend your life and reduce the risk of transmitting the virus to others.
- Get safe: learn how to protect yourself and loved ones.
- Get loud! Don’t let our government look the other way while our communities are decimated! Demand that your elected officials, from the President and Congress all the way down to the City Council and Bexar County government, make HIV prevention, treatment and research a priority, so we can see the end of AIDS in our lifetime
We promise:
BEAT AIDS will stand with this community, serving one person at a time, one family at a time…until there’s a cure.
