HIV Statistics - 2005

HIV Statistics - 2005

• Approximately 9700 women were diagnosed with HIV
  • 80 percent were from heterosexual transmission
• Approximately 37,000 people were newly diagnosed with HIV
  • 26 percent of these were women
• There were about 127,000 women living with HIV in 2005
  • 64 percent were black
  • 19 percent were white
  • 15 percent were Hispanic
  • one percent were Asian / Pacific Islander
  • less than one percent were American Indian / Alaska Native
• The number of women with HIV decreased from almost 12,000 in 2001 to about 9700 in 2005.

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AIDS Statistics - 2005

• Of the nearly 41,000 AIDS diagnoses in the US, 26 percent were women.
• The AIDS diagnosis rate for black women was 23 times greater than white women and 4 times the rate of Hispanic women.
• Of the 422,000 people living with AIDS in the US, 23 percent were women.
• 25 percent of all AIDS deaths in the US were women.
• 19 percent of all AIDS cases from 1981 to 2005 were women
• In 1992 women accounted for 19 percent of people living with AIDS. By 2005 that number had grown to 23 percent.
• While black and Hispanic women together represent 24 percent of the US female population, they represent 82 percent of the AIDS diagnoses in 2005.