A magistrate is not a judge per se, as they have no authority over high classed misdemeanors or any felony criminal offenses or civil matters that exceed a specific amount of damage claim.
The United States was the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s, first noticed by doctors in young gay men in Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco in 1981. In the United States, 1.2 million people live with HIV, about 1/8th of whom are unaware of their infection.
United States 1  : About 50,000 new HIV infections are reported in the U.S. each year. 2  More than 1.1 million people in the U.S. are living with HIV infection, and almost 1 in 6 (15.8%) are unaware of their infection. 2. 3  Since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic in the U.S., approximately 636,000 deaths have been reported.