HIV/AIDS and Asians and Pacific Islanders

Asians/Pacific Islanders have lower AIDS rates than non-Hispanic white counterparts and they are less likely to die of HIV/AIDS. One Asian/Pacific Islander child was diagnosed with AIDS in 2006.

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
Asian/Pacific Islander	305	338	339	373	397	1%
Non-Hispanic White	10,723	10,033	10,181	10,528	10,758	29%
Total Population	37,529	36,102	37,894	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
Asian/Pacific Islander	2,016	2,234	2,529	2,858	3,187	0.6%
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 Asian/Pacific Islander	% of Non-Hispanic White
Male-to-male sexual contact	68%	77%
Injection drug use	11%	9%
Male-to-male sexual contact and injection drug use	4%	8%
Heterosexual contact	16%	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 Asian/Pacific Islander Cases	% of Non-Hispanic White
Injection drug use	15%	33%
Heterosexual contact	82%	65%
Other	3%	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 Asian/Pacific Islander Cases	% of Asian/Pacific Islander Cases	# of Non-Hispanic White Cases	% of Non-Hispanic White Cases
Male-to-male sexual contact	402	70%	11,963	68%
Injection drug use	17	3%	858	5%
Male-to-male sexual contact and injection drug use	15	3%	1,092	7%
Heterosexual contact	25	4%	522	3%
Other	109	19%	1,956	12%
Total Cases	572		16,434

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 Asian/Pacific Islander Cases	% of Asian/Pacific Islander Cases	# of Non-Hispanic White Cases	% of Non-Hispanic White Cases
Male-to-male sexual contact	1,006	63%	55,725	69%
Injection drug use	55	3%	5,512	7%
Male-to-male sexual contact and injection drug use	38	2%	5,578	7%
Heterosexual contact	96	6%	2,658	3%
Other	397	25%	11,147	14%
Total Cases	1,600		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 Asian/Pacific Islander Cases	% of Asian/Pacific Islander Cases	# of Non-Hispanic White Cases	% of Non-Hispanic White Cases
Injection drug use	10	7%	600	20%
Heterosexual contact	57	42%	1,132	42%
Other	70	51%	850	32%
Total Cases	137		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 Asian/Pacific Islander Cases	% of Asian/Pacific Islander Cases	# of Non-Hispanic White Cases	% of Non-Hispanic White Cases
Injection drug use	23	5%	4,260	26%
Heterosexual contact	198	42%	7,593	46%
Other	239	51%	4,567	28%
Total Cases	466		16,590

At a glance – AIDS Cases and Rates, 2004 (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)	Asian/Pacific Islander/Non-Hispanic White Ratio
Asian/Pacific Islander males	423	7.5	0.7
Non-Hispanic White males	9,267	11.2

Asian/Pacific Islander females	95	1.6	0.8
Non-Hispanic White females	1,659	1.9

Asian/Pacific Islander (both sexes)	518	4.4	0.7
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)
Asian/Pacific Islander	1	0
Non-Hispanic White	4	0.0
Total Population	38	0.1

At a glance – AIDS Cases, 2002-2006 (Adults and Children):

**Estimated number of cases of AIDS by year of diagnosis, 2002-2006**
	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	% of total 2006 cases
Asian/Pacific Islander	425	450	444	450	519	1%
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, 2002-2006 (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
Asian/Pacific Islander	1	0	1	1	1	3%
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 Asian/Pacific Islander Cases	% of Non-Hispanic White
Male-to-male sexual contact	72%	75%
Injection drug use	9%	10%
Male-to-male sexual contact and injection drug use	5%	9%
Heterosexual contact	12%	5%
Other	2%	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 Asian/Pacific Islander Cases	% of Non-Hispanic White
Injection drug use	15%	38%
Heterosexual contact	78%	59%
Other	7%	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 Asian/Pacific Islander Cases	% of Asian/Pacific Islander Cases	# of Non-Hispanic White Cases	% of Non-Hispanic White Cases
Male-to-male sexual contact	225	54%	6,251	65%
Injection drug use	20	5%	733	8%
Male-to-male sexual contact and injection drug use	17	4%	732	8%
Heterosexual contact	34	8%	416	4%
Other	114	28%	1,400	15%
Total Cases	413		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 Asian/Pacific Islander Cases	% of Asian/Pacific Islander Cases	# of Non-Hispanic White Cases	% of Non-Hispanic White Cases
Male-to-male sexual contact	4,475	68%	253,927	73%
Injection drug use	317	5%	31,737	9%
Male-to-male sexual contact and injection drug use	284	4%	31,434	9%
Heterosexual contact	376	6%	7,850	2%
Other	949	14%	16,469	5%
Total Cases	6,583		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 Asian/Pacific Islander Cases	% of Asian/Pacific Islander Cases	# of Non-Hispanic White Cases	% of Non-Hispanic White Cases
Injection drug use	11	8%	482	28%
Heterosexual contact	49	47%	725	42%
Other	46	44%	499	29%
Total Cases	104		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 Asian/Pacific Islander Cases	% of Asian/Pacific Islander Cases	# of Non-Hispanic White Cases	% of Non-Hispanic White Cases
Injection drug use	125	12%	14,981	40%
Heterosexual contact	574	53%	15,799	42%
Other	279	26%	4,801	13%
Total Cases	1,078		37,574

At a glance – Death Rate:

**HIV/AIDS Death Rates per 100,000 population (2004)**
	Asian/Pacific Islander	Non-Hispanic White	Asian/Pacific Islander /Non- Hispanic White Ratio
All ages, Men (age-adjusted)	1.2	3.1	0.4
All ages, Women (age-adjusted)	n/a	0.6	--

Age 25-44, Men	1.7	5.5	0.3
Age 25-44, Women	n/a	1.3	--

Age 45-64, Men	2.4	6.0	0.4
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
Asian/Pacific Islander	97	84	111	87	114	0.8%
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**
	Asian	Non-Hispanic White	Asian /Non- Hispanic White Ratio
Ever tested	31.3%	33.5%	0.9
Never tested	68.7%	66.5%	1.0

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]

**Age-adjusted percent of HIV testing status among persons 18 years of age and over, 2005**
	Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander	Non-Hispanic White	Native Hawaiian/Non- Hispanic White Ratio
Ever tested	40.7%	33.5%	1.2
Never tested	59.3%	66.5%	0.9

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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