HIV/AIDS and Asian Americans

Asian Americans have lower AIDS rates than their white counterparts and they are less likely to die of HIV/AIDS.
Asian Americans are less likely to have been tested for HIV/AIDS.
The total number of reported AIDS cases has generally declined over the past five years for the White population, however it has increased for Asian Americans.
Asian American women are 20 percent more likely to be diagnosed with HIV than White women.

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

**Estimated number of diagnosed cases and rates (per 100,000) of HIV, 2010 (United States)**
	# Cases	Rate	Asian American/ White Ratio
Asian males	678	13.7	0.9
White males	12,111	15.3

Asian females	134	2.5	1.2
White females	1,733	2.1

Asian (both sexes)	814	6.5	0.9
White (both sexes)	13,878	7.3

Source: CDC 2012. HIV Surveillance Report: Diagnoses of HIV Infection and AIDS in the United States and Dependent Areas, 2010, v.22. Table 3a.
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/surveillance/resources/reports/2010report/pdf/2010_HIV_Surveillance_Report_vol_22.pdf [PDF | 1.79MB]

At a glance – HIV Infection Cases and Rates (Children <13 years)

**Estimated number of diagnosed cases and rates (per 100,000) of HIV, 2010 (United States)**
	# Cases	Rate
Asian	2	0.1
White	34	0.1
Total Population	217	0.4

Source: CDC 2012. HIV Surveillance Report: Diagnoses of HIV Infection and AIDS in the United States and Dependent Areas, 2010, v.22. Table 5a.
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/surveillance/resources/reports/2010report/pdf/2010_HIV_Surveillance_Report_vol_22.pdf [PDF | 1.79MB]

**Estimated number of cases of HIV infection by year of diagnosis, 2010 (46 states with confidential name-based HIV infection reporting)**
	# Cases	% of total cases
Asian	814	2%
White	13,878	29%
Total Population	47,129

Source: CDC 2012. HIV Surveillance Report: Diagnoses of HIV Infection and AIDS in the United States and Dependent Areas, 2010, v.22. Table 1a.
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/surveillance/resources/reports/2010report/pdf/2010_HIV_Surveillance_Report_vol_22.pdf [PDF | 1.79MB]

**Estimated number of persons living with HIV infection by year, 2009 (46 states with confidential name-based HIV infection reporting)**
	# Cases	% of total cases
Asian	8,366	1.1%
White	273,800	35%
Total Population	784,701

Source: CDC 2012. HIV Surveillance Report: Diagnoses of HIV Infection and AIDS in the United States and Dependent Areas, 2010, v.22. Table 15a.
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/surveillance/resources/reports/2010report/pdf/2010_HIV_Surveillance_Report_vol_22.pdf [PDF | 1.79MB]

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

**Estimated % of male adults or adolescents (>13 years) living with HIV infection at the end of 2009 by transmission category**
Transmission	# Asian Cases	% of Asian Cases	# of White Cases	% of White Cases
Male-to-male sexual contact	5,587	82%	189,886	81%
Heterosexual contact	610	9%	8,544	4%
Injection drug use	280	4%	15,366	7%
Male-to-male sexual contact and injection drug use	288	4%	20,400	9%
Other	51	0.7%	1,414	0.6%
Estimated Total	6,816		235,610

Source: CDC 2012. HIV Surveillance Report: Diagnoses of HIV Infection and AIDS in the United States and Dependent Areas, 2010, v.22. Table 17a.
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/surveillance/resources/reports/2010report/pdf/2010_HIV_Surveillance_Report_vol_22.pdf [PDF | 1.79MB]

**Estimated % of female adults or adolescents (>13 years) living with HIV infection at the end of 2009 by transmission category**
Transmission	# Asian Cases	% of Asian Cases	# of White Cases	% of White Cases
Heterosexual contact	1,273	87%	23,927	65%
Injection drug use	125	9%	12,173	33%
Other	59	4%	487	1%
Estimated Total	1,457		36,587

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

**Estimated number of cases and rates (per 100,000) of AIDS, 2010 (United States)**
	# Cases	Rate(per 100,000)	Asian/White Ratio
Asian males	408	7.5	0.8
White males	7,596	9.1

Asian females	70	1.2	0.8
White females	1,275	1.5

Asian (both sexes)	480	3.5	0.8
White (both sexes)	8,875	4.4

Source: CDC 2012. HIV Surveillance Report: Diagnoses of HIV Infection and AIDS in the United States and Dependent Areas, 2010, v.22. Table 4a.
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/surveillance/resources/reports/2010report/pdf/2010_HIV_Surveillance_Report_vol_22.pdf [PDF | 1.79MB]

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

**Estimated number of diagnosed cases and rates (per 100,000) of AIDS, 2010 (United States)**
	Cummulative # Cases	# Cases	Rate (per 100,000 population)
Asian	49	1	0.1
White	1,599	4	0.0
Total Population	9,475	23	0.0

Source: CDC 2012. HIV Surveillance Report: Diagnoses of HIV Infection and AIDS in the United States and Dependent Areas, 2010, v.22. Table 6a.
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/surveillance/resources/reports/2010report/pdf/2010_HIV_Surveillance_Report_vol_22.pdf [PDF | 1.79MB]

At a glance – AIDS Cases (Adults and Children)

**Estimated number of cases of AIDS by year of diagnosis, 2010**
	Cumulative # Cases	# Cases	% of total cases
Asian	8,759	480	1%
White	429,804	8,875	27%
Total Population	1,129,127	33,015

Source: CDC 2012. HIV Surveillance Report: Diagnoses of HIV Infection and AIDS in the United States and Dependent Areas, 2010, v.22. Table 2a.
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/surveillance/resources/reports/2010report/pdf/2010_HIV_Surveillance_Report_vol_22.pdf [PDF | 1.79MB]

At a glance – Death Rate:

**HIV/AIDS Death Rates per 100,000 population (2008)**
	Asian/Pacific Islander	Non-Hispanic White	Asian/Pacific Islander/ Non-Hispanic White Ratio
All ages, Men (age-adjusted)	1.0	2.3	0.4
All ages, Women (age-adjusted)	0.3	0.5	0.6

Age 25-44, Men	1.6	3.0	0.5
Age 25-44, Women	--	0.8	--

Age 45-64, Men	1.9	5.3	0.4
Age 45-64, Women	--	1.0	--

Source: CDC 2012. Health, United States 2011. Table 35.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus11.pdf [PDF | 9.8MB]

At a glance – AIDS Deaths:

**Estimated number of deaths of persons with AIDS by year of death, 2009**
	Cumulative # Deaths	# Deaths	% of total cases
Asian	3,187	84	0.5%
White	260,572	5,380	30%
Total Population	619,380	17,774

Source: CDC 2012. HIV Surveillance Report: Diagnoses of HIV Infection and AIDS in the United States and Dependent Areas, 2010, v.22. Table 12a.
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/surveillance/resources/reports/2010report/pdf/2010_HIV_Surveillance_Report_vol_22.pdf [PDF | 1.79MB]

At a glance – HIV Testing:

**Age-adjusted percent of HIV testing status among persons 18 years of age and over, 2010**
	Asian	Non-Hispanic White	Asian/ Non-Hispanic White Ratio
Ever tested	34.1	37.3	0.9
Never tested	65.9	62.7	1.1

Source: CDC 2012. Summary Health Statistics for U.S. Adults: 2010. Table 41.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/series/sr_10/sr10_252.pdf [PDF |3.1MB]

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