There are currently 33 million people living with HIV in the world.
While in the state, as of 2008, there were 15,763 people living with HIV infection (279 in Stark County) and 7,354 with AIDS (119 in Stark County), and in the world HIV/AIDS is still a global epidemic of catastrophic proportions with 33.4 million living with the disease.
About 1.1 million people in the United States have HIV but up to one in five of them, or about 200,000 people, do not know their HIV status, the CDC said.
"Reducing the number of undiagnosed infections is a critical component of HIV prevention, as most sexually transmitted HIV infections in the United States are transmitted by people who are unaware of their infection," the CDC report said.
