According to the city’s HIV Surveillance Annual Report, infection rates among women—a group that saw a slight uptick in new infections in 2016—fell by nearly 12% (11.6%). Other encouraging news: 85% of New Yorkers living with HIV were virally suppressed, up from 79% in 2013. If a person with HIV is virally suppressed for at least six months, studies have shown that he or she cannot pass along the virus to sexual partners, helping to keep new infections down.
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