Statistics

• 1,039,000 to 1,185,000 people in the US are living with HIV/AIDS
  
  
• about 40,000 people in the US are infected with HIV each year
  
  
• ¼ of the people infected do not know it
  
  
• Half of all new infections are among African Americans
  
  
• 40% of all infections since the onset of the epidemic have been among African Americans
  
  
• 38% of the half-million AIDS deaths have been African Americans
  
  
• 68% of female HIV infections are among African American women
  
  
• Over ¾ of HIV positive African American women were infected through heterosexual contact
  
  
• 44% of male HIV infections are among African American men
  
  
• Just over half of HIV positive African American men were infected through male-male sexual contact

For more information, visit http://www.cdc.gov/hiv and http://www.niaid.nih.gov/publications/aidsfact.htm