It isn't on the front pages of the nation's newspapers on a regular basis anymore. It doesn't prompt the number of awareness ribbons or constant celebrity commentary it once did. It isn't even the greatest concern of the LGBT community anymore, having been supplanted by, at the very least, marriage equality. Nor does it draw the financial commitment to combat it that it once did.
Yet the epidemic of HIV/AIDS continues, with new worries and challenges and a different face that it once had in demographic terms. HIV/AIDS continues to plague the LGBT community â and the general community â as an urgent health concern, even if the issue doesn't garner the attention it once did.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that there are 1.2 million people living with HIV in the United States today, with 50,000 new cases of infections occurring each year. While both those numbers might be down from the height of the epidemic, it remains a huge concern in the gay commun