HIV/AIDS and American Indians/Alaska Natives

American Indians/Alaska Natives have a 30% higher rate of AIDS as compared to non-Hispanic whites. American Indian/Alaska Native men have a 20% higher AIDS rate as compared to non-Hispanic white men. American Indian/Alaska Native women have twice the AIDS rate as non-Hispanic white women.

At a glance – HIV/AIDS Cases (Adults and Children):

**Estimated number of cases of HIV/AIDS by year of diagnosis, 2002-2006 (33 areas with confidential name-based HIV infection reporting)**
	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	% of total 2006 cases
American Indians/ Alaska Natives	192	179	171	182	166	0.5%
Non-Hispanic White	10,723	10,033	10,181	10,528	10,758	29%
Total Population	37,529	36,102	34,894	35,634	36,817

Source: CDC 2008. HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report: Cases of HIV infection and AIDS in the United States, 2006. v.18. Table 1.
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/surveillance/resources/reports/2006report/pdf/2006SurveillanceReport.pdf[PDF, 2.6MB]

**Estimated number of persons living with HIV/AIDS by year, 2002-2006 (33 areas with confidential name-based HIV infection reporting)**
	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	% of total 2006 cases
American Indians/Alaska Natives	1,695	1,788	1,889	2,008	2,119	0.4%
Non-Hispanic White	139,947	145,081	151,694	158,375	166,000	33%
Total Population	409,407	443,916	465,005	486,028	509,681

Source: CDC 2008. HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report: Cases of HIV infection and AIDS in the United States, 2006. v.18. Table 8.
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/surveillance/resources/reports/2006report/pdf/2006SurveillanceReport.pdf[PDF, 2.6MB]

At a glance – HIV/AIDS Cases by Transmission (Adults):

**Estimated % of male adults or adolescents (>13 years) living with HIV/AIDS at the end of 2006 by transmission**
Transmission	% of American Indians/Alaska Natives	% of Non-Hispanic White
Male-to-male sexual contact	62%	77%
Injection drug use	14%	9%
Male-to-male sexual contact and injection drug use	13%	8%
Heterosexual contact	9%	5%
Other	1%	1%

Source: CDC 2008. HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report: Cases of HIV infection and AIDS in the United States, 2006. v.18. Table 9.
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/surveillance/resources/reports/2006report/pdf/2006SurveillanceReport.pdf[PDF, 2.6MB]

**Estimated % of female adults or adolescents (>13 years) living with HIV/AIDS at the end of 2006 by transmission**
Transmission	% of American Indians/ Alaska Natives Cases	% of Non-Hispanic White
Injection drug use	30%	33%
Heterosexual contact	68%	65%
Other	2%	2%

At a glance – HIV (not AIDS) Cases by Transmission (Male Adults and Adolescents):

**Estimated number and percentage of reported cases of HIV infection for male adults or adolescents (>13 years), 2006 only**
Transmission	# of American Indians/Alaska Natives Cases	% of American Indians/Alaska Natives Cases	# of Non- Hispanic White Cases	% of Non- Hispanic White Cases
Male-to-male sexual contact	104	61%	11,963	73%
Injection drug use	13	8%	858	5%
Male-to-male sexual contact and injection drug use	19	11%	1092	7%
Heterosexual contact	10	6%	522	3%
Other	24	14%	1,956	12%
Total Cases	170		16,934

Source: CDC 2008. HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report: Cases of HIV infection and AIDS in the United States, 2006. v.18. Table 20.
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/surveillance/resources/reports/2006report/pdf/2006SurveillanceReport.pdf[PDF, 2.6MB]

**Estimated number and percentage of reported cases of HIV infection for male adults or adolescents (>13 years), Cumulative to 2006**
Transmission	# of American Indians/Alaska Natives Cases	% of American Indians/Alaska Natives Cases	# of Non- Hispanic White Cases	% of Non- Hispanic White Cases
Male-to-male sexual contact	516	57%	55,725	69%
Injection drug use	101	11%	5,512	7%
Male-to-male sexual contact and injection drug use	110	12%	5,578	7%
Heterosexual contact	53	6%	2,658	3%
Other	125	14%	11,147	14%
Total Cases	907		81,172

At a glance – HIV (not AIDS) Cases by Transmission (Female Adults and Adolescents):

**Estimated number and percentage of reported cases of HIV infection for female adults or adolescents (>13 years), 2006 only**
Transmission	# of American Indians/Alaska Natives Cases	% of American Indians/Alaska Natives Cases	# of Non- Hispanic White Cases	% of Non- Hispanic White Cases
Injection drug use	29	34%	690	26%
Heterosexual contact	38	44%	1132	42%
Other	19	22%	850	32%
Total Cases	86		2,687

Source: CDC 2008. HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report: Cases of HIV infection and AIDS in the United States, 2006. v.18. Table 22.
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/surveillance/resources/reports/2006report/pdf/2006SurveillanceReport.pdf[PDF, 2.6MB]

**Estimated number and percentage of reported cases of HIV infection for female adults or adolescents (>13 years), Cumulative to 2006**
Transmission	# of American Indians/Alaska Natives Cases	% of American Indians/Alaska Natives Cases	# of Non- Hispanic White Cases	% of Non- Hispanic White Cases
Injection drug use	112	28%	4,260	26%
Heterosexual contact	190	48%	7,593	46%
Other	94	24%	4,567	28%
Total Cases	397		16,590

At a glance – AIDS Cases and Rates (Adults):

**Estimated number of cases and rates (per 100,000) of AIDS, 2006 (50 States and the District of Columbia)**
	# Cases	Rate (per 100,000)	American Indians/Alaska Natives /Non-Hispanic White Ratio
American Indians/Alaska Natives males	118	12.2	1.0
Non-Hispanic White males	9,267	11.2

American Indians/Alaska Natives females	37	3.6	1.9
Non-Hispanic White females	1,659	1.9

American Indians/Alaska Natives (both sexes)	155	7.8	1.2
Non-Hispanic White (both sexes)	10,926	6.4

Source: CDC 2008. HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report: Cases of HIV infection and AIDS in the United States, 2006. v.18. Table 5a.
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/surveillance/resources/reports/2006report/pdf/2006SurveillanceReport.pdf[PDF, 2.6MB]

At a glance – AIDS Cases and Rates (Children, <13 years old):

**Estimated number of cases and rates (per 100,000) of AIDS, 2006 (50 States and the District of Columbia)**
	# Cases	Rate (per 100,000 population)
American Indian/Alaska Native	0	0.0
Non-Hispanic White	4	0.0
Total Population	38	0.1

At a glance – AIDS Cases (Adults and Children):

**Estimated number of cases of AIDS by year of diagnosis, 2002-2006**
	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	% of total 2006 cases
American Indian/Alaska Native	177	176	182	170	155	0.4%
Non-Hispanic White	11,233	10,948	11,066	10,676	10,929	29%
Total Population	39,250	39,690	38,807	37,662	37,852

Source: CDC 2008. HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report: Cases of HIV infection and AIDS in the United States, 2006. v.18. Table 3.
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/surveillance/resources/reports/2006report/pdf/2006SurveillanceReport.pdf[PDF, 2.6MB]

At a glance – AIDS Cases (Children only):

**Estimated number of AIDS cases in children <13 years of age, by year of diagnosis, 2002-2006**
	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	% of total 2006 cases
American Indian/Alaska Native	1	0	1	0	0	0%
Non-Hispanic White	14	12	7	4	4	9%
Total Population	106	70	53	53	38

Source: CDC 2008. HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report: Cases of HIV infection and AIDS in the United States, 2006. v.18. Table 4.
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/surveillance/resources/reports/2006report/pdf/2006SurveillanceReport.pdf[PDF, 2.6MB]

At a glance – AIDS Cases by Transmission (Adults):

**Estimated % of male adults or adolescents (>13 years) living with AIDS at the end of 2006 by transmission**
Transmission	% of American Indian/Alaska Native Cases	% of Non-Hispanic White
Male-to-male sexual contact	57%	75%
Injection drug use	16%	10%
Male-to-male sexual contact and injection drug use	18%	9%
Heterosexual contact	8%	5%
Other	1%	1%

Source: CDC 2008. HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report: Cases of HIV infection and AIDS in the United States, 2006. v.18. Table 11.
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/surveillance/resources/reports/2006report/pdf/2006SurveillanceReport.pdf[PDF, 2.6MB]

**Estimated % of female adults or adolescents (>13 years) living with AIDS at the end of 2006 by transmission**
Transmission	% of American Indian/Alaska Native Cases	% of Non-Hispanic White
Injection drug use	39%	38%
Heterosexual contact	58%	59%
Other	3%	3%

At a glance – AIDS Cases by Transmission (Male Adults and Adolescents):

**Estimated number and percentage of reported cases of AIDS for male adults or adolescents (>13 years), 2006 only**
Transmission	# of American Indians/Alaska Natives Cases	% of American Indians/Alaska Natives Cases	# of Non- Hispanic White Cases	% of Non- Hispanic White Cases
Male-to-male sexual contact	61	49%	6,251	65%
Injection drug use	15	12%	733	8%
Male-to-male sexual contact and injection drug use	23	19%	732	8%
Heterosexual contact	9	7%	416	4%
Other	16	13%	1,400	15%
Total Cases	124		9,578

Source: CDC 2008. HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report: Cases of HIV infection and AIDS in the United States, 2006. v.18. Table 19.
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/surveillance/resources/reports/2006report/pdf/2006SurveillanceReport.pdf[PDF, 2.6MB]

**Estimated number and percentage of reported cases of AIDS for male adults or adolescents (>13 years), Cumulative to 2006**
Transmission	# of American Indians/Alaska Natives Cases	% of American Indians/Alaska Natives Cases	# of Non- Hispanic White Cases	% of Non- Hispanic White Cases
Male-to-male sexual contact	1,403	55%	253,927	73%
Injection drug use	395	15%	31,737	9%
Male-to-male sexual contact and injection drug use	457	18%	31,434	9%
Heterosexual contact	118	5%	7,850	2%
Other	155	6%	16,469	5%
Total Cases	2,563		348,600

At a glance –AIDS Cases by Transmission (Female Adults and Adolescents):

**Estimated number and percentage of reported cases of AIDS for female adults or adolescents (>13 years), 2006 only**
Transmission	# of American Indians/Alaska Natives Cases	% of American Indians/Alaska Natives Cases	# of Non- Hispanic White Cases	% of Non- Hispanic White Cases
Injection drug use	13	32%	482	28%
Heterosexual contact	15	37%	725	42%
Other	12	29%	499	29%
Total Cases	41		1,725

Source: CDC 2008. HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report: Cases of HIV infection and AIDS in the United States, 2006. v.18. Table 21.
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/surveillance/resources/reports/2006report/pdf/2006SurveillanceReport.pdf[PDF, 2.6MB]

**Estimated number and percentage of reported cases of AIDS for female adults or adolescents (>13 years), Cumulative to 2006**
Transmission	# of American Indians/Alaska Natives Cases	% of American Indians/Alaska Natives Cases	# of Non- Hispanic White Cases	% of Non- Hispanic White Cases
Injection drug use	280	42%	14,981	40%
Heterosexual contact	277	41%	15,799	42%
Other	95	14%	4,801	13%
Total Cases	672		37,574

At a glance – Death Rate:

**HIV/AIDS Death Rates per 100,000 population (2004)**
	American Indian/Alaska Native	Non-Hispanic White	American Indian/Alaska Native /Non- Hispanic White Ratio
All ages, Men (age-adjusted)	4.3	3.1	1.4
All ages, Women (age-adjusted)	1.5	0.6	2.5

Age 25-44, Men	8.6	5.5	1.6
Age 25-44, Women	n/a	1.3	--

Age 45-64, Men	7.2	6.0	1.2
Age 45-64, Women	n/a	0.9	--

Source: CDC 2007. Health, United States 2007. Table 42.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus07.pdf#042[PDF, 6MB]

At a glance – AIDS Deaths:

**Estimated number of deaths of persons with AIDS by year of death, 2002-2006**
	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	% of total 2006 cases
American Indian/Alaska Native	83	73	80	65	66	0.45%
Non-Hispanic White	5,214	5,097	4,836	4,758	3,860	26%
Total Population	17,628	17,283	16,982	16,865	14,627

Source: CDC 2008. HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report: Cases of HIV infection and AIDS in the United States, 2006. v.18. Table 7.
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/surveillance/resources/reports/2006report/pdf/2006SurveillanceReport.pdf[PDF, 2.6MB]

At a glance – HIV Testing:

**Age-adjusted percent of HIV testing status among persons 18 years of age and over, 2006**
	American Indian/Alaska Native	Non-Hispanic White	American Indian/Alaska Native /Non- Hispanic White Ratio
Ever tested	47.7%	33.5%	1.4
Never tested	52.3%	66.5%	0.8

Source: CDC 2007. Summary Health Statistics for U.S. Adults: 2006. Table 41.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/series/sr_10/sr10_235.pdf[PDF, 3.7MB]

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