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1Center for American Progress | Fact Sheet: The AIDS Crisis in the United States
Fact Sheet: The AIDS Crisis in theUnited States
A Look at the Disease on World AIDS Day 2010
Jerome Hunt and Carlos Maza December 2010
On his 22nd annual World AIDS Day 33.4 million peopleworldwide live wihHIV-AIDS. A home, he HIV-AIDS crisis coninues o aec many Americans.More han1 million peopleare esimaed o be living wih HIV in he UniedSaes while an asounding 56,300 Americans become ineced wih HIV each year. We need o do more o help he communiies and people mos in need.Tis ac shee documens how HIV-AIDS is aecing he Unied Saes, whichcommuniies see he highes raes o inecion, and wha we can do o sop hespread o his disease. Te governmen is sepping up in his regard, bu acion ahe ederal level won’ be enough.
Gay and bisexual men still make up a large percentage of thosediagnosed with HIV-AIDS
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Gay and bisexual men rom all races and ehniciies made up 54 percen o hosediagnosed wih HIV in 2008, a percenage on he rise since 2005.
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Men who have sex wih men in 2007 were 44 o 86 imes as likely o be diag-nosed wih HIV compared o oher men.
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 Approximaely 17,940 men who have sex wih men were diagnosed wih AIDSin he 50 saes, he Disric o Columbia, and he Unied Saes dependen areasin 2008. Tis is a 6 percen increase rom 2005.
 
2Center for American Progress | Fact Sheet: The AIDS Crisis in the United States
Minorities are the hardest hit
African Americans
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 Arican Americans, who represen 12 percen o he U.S. populaion, madeup 52 percen o all diagnoses o HIV in 2008. Tey encompass 46 percen o people living wih HIV in he Unied Saes.
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 Arican Americans experienced he larges increase in raes o HIV diagnoses by ehniciy or race rom 2005 o 2008—wih he rae increasing rom 68 per100,000 o 74 per 100,000.
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 AIDS is he number one killer o black women beween he ages o 25 and 34.
Hispanics
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Hispanics, who make up 16 percen o he U.S. populaion, represen an esi-maed 18 percen o people living wih HIV in he Unied Saes and approxi-maely 17 percen o new inecions each year.
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Mos new inecions o HIV among Hispanic men (72 percen) occur amongmen who have sex wih men, while he rae o new inecions among Hispanic women is almos our imes ha o whie women.
Asians and Pacific Islanders
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 Asian and Pacifc Islanders make up 0.6 percen o people living wih HIV-AIDSin he Unied Saes. Bu his number may be larger because o he underrepor-ing or misclassifcaion o Pacifc Islander and Asians.
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 Asian Americans have lower AIDS raes han whies, and hey’re less likely odie o HIV-AIDS han heir whie counerpars.
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 Asian Americans are less likely o ge esed or HIV-AIDS while he number o repored AIDS cases coninues o increase in his populaion.
 The nation’s capital faces an epidemic but is fighting back
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HIV-AIDS has reached an epidemic rae o inecion in Washingon, D.C., wih3 percen o D.C. residens older han 12 living wih HIV or AIDS.
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