The HIV diagnoses rates are not looking good and it's on track to some alarming numbers. A study by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention revealed that if trends persist, one out of four Latino men who have sex with men (MSM) are projected to get HIV in their lifetime. The study also said that one out of two black MSM are expected to continue in the same vein.

The analysis of the CDC was presented at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Boston. This marks the first time there have been a national estimate of HIV lifetime risks for certain demographics.

However, the future is not as totally bleak as the numbers indicate. Director of CDC's National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and Tuberculosis Prevention Jonathan Mermin, M.D. spoke up saying it's time to do something to combat the continuous rise of HIV, particularly in the gay community.

"As alarming as these lifetime risk estimates are, they are not a foregone conclusion," Mermin explained. "They are a call to action. The prevention and care strategies we have at our disposal today provide a promising outlook for future reductions of HIV infections and disparities in the U.S., but hundreds of thousands of people will be diagnosed in their lifetime if we don't scale up efforts now."

The study, which analyzed diagnoses and death rates from 2009 to 2013, offered projections for the lifetime risk of HIV diagnosis in the country by sex, race and ethnicity, state and HIV risk group.

Right now, the overall lifetime risk of HIV diagnosis in the United States is one out of 99. The study found that gay and bisexual men are still the most vulnerable to HIV in the United States. with one out of six MSM projected to get HIV in their lifetime. While Latinos and black men have direr numbers, white MSM are still very much affected with a lifetime HIV risk of one in 11.

In terms of racial and ethnic groups, African Americans are the most affected. Meanwhile, people who inject drugs were found to be more at risk compared to the general population.

The research also revealed that those from the South had a higher lifetime risk of HIV than other Americans, but the highest states at risk were Washington D.C. at one in 13, Maryland at one in 49, Georgia at one in 51, Florida at one in 54 and Louisiana at one in 56.

Health officials continue to work for HIV protection, which includes tools like vaginal rings and PReP pills to help combat the disease around the world.