Factbox: AIDS and treatment in the United States

(Reuters) - Researchers projected on Monday that an expanded treatment and screening program could prevent 212,000 new HIV infections in the United States over the next 20 years.

Here are some facts about that AIDS epidemic in the United States and how people currently receive treatment:

* An estimated 1.1 million Americans have HIV and 600,000 have died of it.

* U.S. federal funding for HIV $26 billion in 2010.

* 51 percent of this federal money went for care for HIV patients, including HIV drug cocktails; 11 percent was spent for research; 10 percent for cash and housing assistance; 3 percent for prevention; and 25 percent for the international pandemic.

* HIV patients in the United States get their care paid for by Medicaid, the state-federal health insurance plan for the poor; Medicare, the federal health insurance plan for the elderly and disabled; Social Security; the Ryan White Program, and HOPWA, the Housing Opportunities for Persons with HIV/AIDS Program; community and non-profit groups.

* Gay and bisexual men accounted for an estimated 53 percent of new HIV infections in 2006.

* The HIV rate is 7 times greater among blacks than whites in 2006 and blacks account for 2 percent of all cases of HIV in the United States.

* Globally, 33 million people have HIV and 25 million have died of it.

(Source, Kaiser Family Foundation, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

(Editing by Cynthia Osterman)