Md. Health Organizations Recognize World AIDS Day

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene joined the World Health Organization (WHO), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and local public health and community partners to recognize World AIDS Day on December 1.

According to the World Health Organization, in 2013 approximately 35 million people worldwide were living with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

There were 30,306 adults or adolescents diagnosed and living with HIV in Maryland at that time. Maryland ranks second among U.S. states in estimated adult or adolescent HIV diagnosis, and the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson metropolitan statistical area has the third-highest estimated HIV diagnosis rate of any major metropolitan area in the nation.

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