This interactive map shows where people with HIV live in the US - and it points to some distressing trends
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It's been 35 years since HIV/AIDS first made an appearance in the US, and it quickly spiraled into an epidemic.
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Now medical advances have made HIV, especially if diagnosed early, a disease that can be controlled with medication.
An estimated 1.2 million Americans live with HIV in the US, and thousands still die from AIDS every year.
AIDSvu, a project run by Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health in partnership with biotech company Gilead Sciences, has been tracking where people with HIV live by county since 2010.
On Thursday, it released its newest data, which looks across 2013, as well as new diagnoses from 2008 to 2014. Here's what they found.
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