HIV/AIDS Data/Statistics

HIV/AIDS has had a devastating impact on minorities in the United States. Racial and ethnic minorities accounted for almost 66 percent of the newly diagnosed cases of HIV and AIDS in 2006. In 2006, 81 percent of babies born with HIV/AIDS belong to minority groups.

In the African American community, HIV/AIDS has become an epidemic. African Americans accounted for 47% of all HIV/AIDS cases diagnosed in 2006. African American men are more than nine times more likely to die of AIDS than non-Hispanic White men. AIDS is the third leading cause of death in African American women aged 25-34 and the third leading cause of death in African American men, aged 35-44, in 2005.

HIV/AIDS is spreading at a rapid rate in the Hispanic community. Hispanics accounted for 18 percent of AIDS cases in 2006, despite making up only 14 percent of the U.S. population. Hispanics are 3.3 times more likely to be diagnosed with AIDS than non-Hispanic Whites. Hispanic males were also almost three times more likely to die of AIDS than their non-Hispanic White counterparts in 2006.

Though the numbers are small, American Indians are also impacted disproportionately by HIV/AIDS. American Indians are 1.2 times more likely to have AIDS than non-Hispanic Whites.

For Asians and Pacific Islanders, HIV/AIDS is the eighth leading cause of death in men aged 35 to 44, as well as for American Indians/Native Americans in the same age group.

Quick Facts

• African American males have 7.4 times the AIDS rate as non-Hispanic white males.
• American Indian/Alaska Native women have almost twice the AIDS rate as non-Hispanic white women.
• One Asian/Pacific Islander child was diagnosed with AIDS in 2006.
• Hispanic females have 5 times the AIDS rate as non-Hispanic white females.

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