AIDS is the disease caused by the damage that HIV does to your immune system. You have AIDS when you get rare, dangerous infections or have a super low number of CD4 cells. AIDS is the most serious stage of HIV, and it leads to death over time.
1 One in every 330 Americans will develop cancer by the age of 20. 2  On the average, 12,500 children and adolescents in the U.S. are diagnosed with cancer each year. 3  On the average, 1 in every 4 elementary school has a child with cancer. 4  The average high school has two students who are a current or former cancer patient.
On any given day. in the United States... 10,657 babies are born. 3,890,000/yr: US Census Bureau. 1 of these babies is HIV positive. 5/100,000: Center for Disease Control and Prevention. 2 of these babies are born with Spina Bifida. 20/100,000: Center for Disease Control and Prevention.