Statistics: United States
- There are approximately 1.1 million people living with HIV/AIDS in the U.S.
- It is estimated that one-fifth of those people don’t know they have it.
- Since the start of the AIDS epidemic, 1.7 million Americans have been infected with HIV and more than 550,000 have died of AIDS.
- An estimated 56,300 new HIV infections occurred in the U.S. in 2006.
- Men who have sex with men (MSM) account for the majority of new HIV/AIDS diagnoses although MSM comprise only around 2% of the U.S. male population. In 2007, a third of these MSM were younger than 30 years old.
- New HIV diagnoses among MSM are more than 44 times higher than among other men and more than 40 times higher than women.
- African Americans accounted for 46% of new HIV infections diagnosed in 2006, although they comprise only 12% of the population.
- The HIV infection rate among African Americans is seven times higher than the rate among whites. The infection rate among Latinos is three times higher than the rate among whites.
- HIV was the leading cause of death for African-American women aged 25-34 years in 2004.
- The number of women living with HIV has tripled in the last two decades; by 2005, 26% of people living with HIV were women.
- 80% of newly diagnosed HIV-positive women contracted the virus through heterosexual sex.
- In 2006, 34% of all new infections occurred among people aged 13-29—more than any other age group.
Sources: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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