Spinal cord injury
On an annual basis in the United States :
- Nearly 11,000 people sustain a traumatic spinal cord injury.
- More than 190,000 people in the U.S live with paralysis caused by spinal cord injury.
- 85 percent of all spinal cord injury patients who survive 24 hours after their injury are still living ten years after the incidents.
HIV/AIDS
On an annual basis in the United States :
- The following number of people died from an AIDS-related illness.
1999-16,273 1998-17,930 1997 -21,923 1996-37,787
1995-50,610 1994-49,869 1993 -45,381
- The following numbers of people were diagnosed with HIV/AIDS.
1996-60,618 1997-49,704 1998-43,681
Multiple Sclerosis
On an annual basis in the United States :
- It is estimated that 10,400 people are diagnosed with MS on a yearly basis, broken down to 200 new instances per week.
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