Sex of Adults and Adolescents With HIV/AIDS Diagnosed During 2005

Sex of Adults and Adolescents With HIV/AIDS Diagnosed During 2005

Note. Based on data from 33 states with long-term, confidential name-based HIV reporting.

Transmission Categories and Race/Ethnicity of Women Living With HIV/AIDS at the End of 2005

Note. Based on data from 33 states with long-term, confidential name-based HIV reporting.

AIDS in 2005

• Of 40,608 AIDS diagnoses in the 50 states and the District of Columbia, 10,774 (27%) were for women.³
• The rate of AIDS diagnosis for black women (45.5/100,000 women) was approximately 23 times the rate for white women (2.0/100,000) and 4 times the rate for Hispanic women (11.2/100,000).³
• An estimated 95,959 women were living with AIDS, representing 23% of the estimated 421,873 people living with AIDS in the 50 states and the District of Columbia.³
• An estimated 4,128 women with AIDS died, representing 25% of the 16,316 persons with AIDS who died in the 50 states and the District of Columbia.³
• From the beginning of the epidemic (1981) through 2005, women accounted for 181,802 diagnoses, a number that represents 19% of the 952,629 AIDS diagnoses in the 50 states and the District of Columbia during this period.³
• From the beginning of the epidemic through 2005, an estimated 85,844 women with AIDS died, accounting for 16% of the 530,756 persons with AIDS who died in the 50 states and the District of Columbia.³
• Women with AIDS made up an increasing part of the epidemic. In 1992, women accounted for an estimated 14% of adults and adolescents living with AIDS in the 50 states and the District of Columbia ⁵. By the end of 2005, this proportion had grown to 23%.³
• Data from the 2005 census show that together, black and Hispanic women represent 24% of all US women.⁶ However, women in these 2 groups accounted for 82% (8,807/10,774) of the estimated total of AIDS diagnoses for women in 2005.³