World AIDS Day 2010: Fascinating facts, numbers

On Wednesday, activists around the globe commemorate World AIDS Day, which the World Health Organization created in 1988. The World AIDS Campaign organizes the international observance, which draws attention to the disease's continued toll and honors those affected by

HIV/AIDS. 

Though the disease has high visibility in Africa, some fear there is increasing complacency about HIV/AIDS in the U.S.

A CDC study released in September tested men who have sex with men and found that more than half of those infected in Chicago did not know they had HIV. In the national study, younger men--those 18 to 29 years old--and minority men were found to be more likely to not know they had the disease. Here are more recent headlines, events and statistics related to HIV/AIDS.

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