This map shows where people with HIV live in the US - and points to some troubling trends
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It's been 36 years since HIV/AIDS first made an appearance in the US.
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The disease quickly spiraled into an epidemic, but medical advances have since made HIV controllable with medication - especially if diagnosed early.
An estimated 1.1 million Americans currently live with HIV in the US, however, 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 mapping HIV by county since 2010.
On Wednesday, it released its newest data - the maps show the prevalence of HIV as of 2014, as well as new diagnoses from 2008 to 2015. Here's what the researchers found.
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