USCCB - (SAAC) - Statistics

Statistics

Information from The Leadership Campaign on AIDS

African Americans

Through June 2000, 753,907 AIDS cases have been reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Black individuals accounted for:

38% of total AIDS cases
57% of total AIDS cases among women
59% of total AIDS cases among children ¹
From July 1999 - June 2000, 48% of reported AIDS cases were among Black adults and adolescents.¹
Of the estimated 40,000 new HIV infections each year, greater than 50% occur among African Americans.
In the areas with confidential HIV reporting, African Americans comprised nearly 52% of persons diagnosed with HIV (but who had not developed AIDS) through June 2000.¹
An estimated 1 in 50 African American men and 1 in 160 African American women are infected with HIV.
African American children (under the age of 13) represent almost two-thirds (64%) of all reported pediatric HIV cases in the United States.
For Black individuals 25 - 44 years of age, HIV/AIDS was the leading cause of death in 1998. HIV/AIDS was the second leading cause of death for Black men and the third leading cause of death for Black women in this age group.³

The terms "African American" and "Black" are used interchangeably to include those individuals who self-identify as either.

¹ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report, 2000, Vol 12 (No 1).
² Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, HIV/AIDS Among Racial/Ethnic Minority Men Who Have Sex with Men.
- - United States, 1989-1998, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, January 14, 2000/49(01); 4-11.
³ National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics Reports, July 2000.

Minority Women

Through June 2000, of the 753,907 AIDS cases reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 129,190 occurred in females. Black and Hispanic women accounted for roughly 77% of those cases, and Asian American/Pacific Islander (AA/PI) and American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) women comprised nearly 1% of those cases. A similar trend is seen in new HIV infections among women.¹
The proportion of AIDS cases among women, especially among women of color, continues to rise. From July 1999 through June 2000, women represented 24% of new AIDS cases compared to only 11% in 1990 and 6% in 1982.²
From July 1999 - June 2000, Black and Hispanic women accounted for 81% of AIDS cases reported among women.1
Females across racial/ethnic groups more commonly report heterosexual contact and injection drug use as the primary modes of exposure to HIV, while AA/PI females more commonly report heterosexual contact.¹
In areas with confidential HIV reporting, persons ages 13 to 24 accounted for 16% of newly reported HIV cases (not AIDS) between July 1999 - June 2000. Of these persons, females accounted for 48% of the cases in this age group.¹

HIV/AIDS was the third leading cause of death among African American women ages 25 to 44 in 1998. In that year, the AIDS death rate for African American women ages 25 to 44 was twenty-one times higher than the AIDS death rate for White women in the same age group.² The terms "African American" and "Black" are used interchangeably to include those individuals who self-identify as either. The term "Hispanic" includes those individuals who self-identify as "Latino/a" or "Hispanic."

¹ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report, 2000, Vol 12 (No 1).

² National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics Reports, July 2000.