AIDS Global Statistics

AIDS Statistics

Here are some statistics regarding the disease that plagues our friends, family, and everyone around the world.

Youth are at risk for HIV infection, and youth of color, regardless of gender or sexual orientation, are at disproportionate risk of HIV infection.
During 2003 the majority of Nevadans diagnosed with HIV/AIDS were between ages 25 and 44.
In Washoe County, a growing number of newly diagnosed were in the 13 to 24 year old age group.
HIV/AIDS was the seventh leading cause of death among persons 25 to 44 years old in Nevada.

By gender males account for 87% of HIV deaths.
In the United States, more than 50 percent of all adolescent AIDS cases occur among female teens, and the overwhelming majority of these cases occur among African Americans and Latinas.
The death rate from HIV (5.68 per 100,000) for males was 16 times higher than that of females

Of the 59 US children younger than 13 years of age with a new AIDS diagnosis, 40 were African American.
Although African Americans only account for 12% of the US population, they accounted for approximately 51% of all HIV/AIDS infections in 2007.
Of the 141 infants reported infected with HIV, 91 (65%) were African American.
In Washoe County African Americans had higher rates of HIV than people of other races.
The black population were six and two and a half times higher than the next highest race.
Blacks accounted for 20% of deaths, and their death rate was more than three times that of whites.

Substance abusers accounted for one quarter of AIDS cases in the United States through June 2000.

The majority of HIV/AIDS cases diagnosed in 2006 among females age 13 years or older were attributed to high-risk heterosexual contact.
Heterosexual contact declined slowly from 1996 - 1998 but increased through 2004
Heterosexual contact accounts for 8% of cumulative HIV infections in Washoe County (2005)

1 in 4 people have HIV and don't know it
Over 50,000 people in the United States contract HIV each year •Every 9.5 minutes someone is infected with HIV
1.2 million people are living with HIV
34 million people are living with HIV/AIDS

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