While HIV does not discriminate among

While HIV does not discriminate among different races, genders, or ethnicities, certain populations are carrying a larger burden of the HIV epidemic than others. The Hispanic population is seeing their HIV population continue to grow and become a large proportion of the new HIV cases. Let's take a look at the HIV epidemic and see the impact of HIV/AIDS among Hispanics.

Cumulative Effects of HIV/AIDS in the Hispanic Community

• Although Hispanics make up only about 14 percent of the population of the United States and Puerto Rico, they account for 18 percent; almost 164,000 of the more than 886,500
  

AIDS in the Hispanic Community

• By the end of 2002, nearly 88,000 Hispanics had died of AIDS.
• Among people given a diagnosis of AIDS since 1994, a smaller proportion of Hispanics (61 percent), compared with whites (64 percent) and Asians/Pacific Islanders (69 percent), were alive after 9 years.
• The proportion of surviving Hispanics was larger than the proportions of surviving American Indians and Alaska Natives (58 percent) and African Americans (55 percent).
• Hispanics accounted for more than 8,000, or 20 percent, of the more than 42,000 new AIDS diagnoses in the United States in 2002.
• Of the rates of AIDS diagnoses for all racial and ethnic groups, the second highest was the rate for Hispanics. Here is the breakdown:
  1. African Americans - 76.4 cases per 100,000 people
  2. Hispanics - 26.0 per 100,000 people
  3. American Indians and Alaska Natives - 11.2 per 100,000 people
  4. Whites - 7.0 per 100,000 people
  5. Asians and Pacific Islanders - 4.9 per 100,000 people
• The 76,052 Hispanics living with AIDS accounted for 20 percent of all people in the United States living with AIDS