HIV / AIDS: Statistics

The most recent statistics on HIV and AIDS released in 1998 include the following:

In the United States from 1993 to 1998:

• The percentage of AIDS in whites is down from 60 percent to 33 percent; in blacks it is up from 25 percent to 45 percent. The incidence in Hispanics remains about the same at 20 percent.

In the United States in 1998:

• There were approximately 250,000 cases of HIV in men and 55,000 cases in women.

• There were approximately 120,000 whites, 120,000 blacks, and 50,000 Hispanics living with AIDS.

• The number of men with AIDS per 100,000 population includes whites 18, blacks 125, Hispanics 58, Asian/Pacific Islander 9, and American Indian/Alaska native 16.

• The number of women with AIDS per 100,000 population includes whites 2, blacks 50, and Hispanics 17, Asian/Pacific Islander 1, and American Indian/Alaska native 4.

Statistics also show that:

• men are most likely to get HIV infection from homosexual contact

• women are most likely to get HIV infection from heterosexual contact

• children are most likely to get HIV infection from their mother and

• using infected drugs considerably increases the infection risk in both sexes

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