A new Vital Signs report from the CDC looked at HIV infections among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men in the United States. The report tracked data from 2010 through 2019. It found that the number of new HIV infections in this group did not change overall during that decade. This means progress in reducing new infections has stalled.
The report did not include specific numbers of people or details about treatments or prevention methods used. It also did not report on any safety concerns related to HIV care. The main finding is simply that the overall rate of new infections remained flat, which is a public health concern.
The main reason to be careful with this information is that it is a descriptive report. It tells us what happened, but it does not tell us why it happened. It cannot tell us if prevention efforts are failing or if other factors are at play. Readers should take from this that continued focus on HIV prevention and care is critically important, but this single report does not provide solutions or assign causes for the lack of progress.
