HIV/AIDS

Transmission categories of adults and adolescents with HIV/AIDS diagnosed during 2004

Sex of adults and adolescents with HIV/AIDS diagnosed during 2004

Race/ethnicity of persons (including children) with HIV/AIDS diagnosed during 2004

1000 cases in 1983

10,000 cases in 1985

100,000 cases in 1989

500,000 cases in 1995

626,334 cases in 1997

Overall, even though African Americans make up only approximately 13% of the US population, one half of the estimated new numbers of HIV/AIDS diagnoses in the United States in 2004 were for African Americans [1].*1 AIDS has become a leading cause of death for African Americans. In 2002 (the most recent year for which data are available), HIV/AIDS was the second leading cause of death for all African Americans aged 35–44 [2]. In the same year, HIV/AIDS was the number 1 cause of death for African American women aged 25–34 [2].2 Of the almost 1 million cases of AIDS diagnosed in the United States 40% were in African Americans [1].1 Of the more than half a million people with AIDS who have died, 38% were African Americans [1].1 It is not an exaggeration to say that HIV/AIDS is an epidemic in the African American community. African Americans have accounted for 40% of AIDS diagnoses since the beginning of the epidemic [1].1 African Americans do not live as long as people in other racial or ethnic groups who have AIDS [1].1 In 2004,more African American children (under the age of 13) were living with AIDS than were children of all other races and ethnicities living with AIDS combined [1].1

By Known Risk Behavior MaleCasesPercent Homosexuals11, % Injecting Drug Users3, % Homosexuals who Inject Drugs1,3437.5% Heterosexual1,3987.8% Receipt of Blood/Tissue1951.1% Hemophilia/Coagulation Disorder1040.6% Total18,025 FemalesCasesPercent Reported Heterosexual1, % Injecting Drug Use1, % Receipt of Blood/Tissue1675.3% Total3,155

By Race & Sex CasesPercent Black15, % White8, % Hispanic % Asian450.20% Others280.11% Total24,554 CasesPercent Male18, % Female3, % Total21,180

By Age CasesPercent Under % 5 to % 13 to % 20 to 294, % 30 to 3911, % 40 to 495, % Over 492,2118.9% Total24,764

Reported Cases of AIDS Atlanta16,975 Augusta1,347 Savannah1,046 Macon1,009 Albany908 Columbus873 LaGrange667 Wacross507 Valdosta384 Athens353 Brunswick350 Rome284 Gainesville221 Dalton186 Dublin135 Total25,245 Atlanta 67.2% Outside Atlanta 37.8%

YOU’VE HAD TWO SEX PARTNERS AND YOUR TWO SEX PARTNERS HAD EACH HAD TWO SEX PARTNERS, AND THEIR SEX PARTNERS HAD EACH HAD TWO SEX PARTNERS, AND THEIR SEX PARTNERS HAD EACH HAD TWO SEX PARTNERS, AND THEIR SEX PARTNERS HAD EACH HAD TWO SEX PARTNERS, AND THEIR SEX PARTNERS HAD EACH HAD TWO SEX PARTNERS, AND THEIR SEX PARTNERS HAD EACH HAD TWO SEX PARTNERS, AND THEIR SEX PARTNERS HAD EACH HAD TWO SEX PARTNERS, AND THEIR SEX PARTNERS HAD EACH HAD TWO SEX PARTNERS

Then it’s as if you had sex with 512 people. Anyone of them could have given you the virus that causes AIDS