AIDS Statistics

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

YOUNG PEOPLE

  • 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 .

GENDER

  • 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

AFRICAN AMERICANS

  • 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.

DRUGS and ALCOHOL

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

HETROSEXUALS

  • 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)

HOMOSEXUALS

  • Homosexual contact leveled off in 2005 in Washoe County (numbers didn't go up or down) but it still accounts for 48% of all HIV diagnoses in Washoe County

WORLD WIDE

  • 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