AVERT - AVERTing HIV and AIDS

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that around 1.1 million adults and adolescents are living with HIV in the USA, including those not yet diagnosed, and those who have already progressed to AIDS. At the end of 2007, an estimated 599,819 people were living with a diagnosis of HIV infection in the 37 states and 5 U.S. dependent areas with confidential name-based reporting.

HIV and AIDS statistics by state

An estimated 470,902 people were living with AIDS in America in 2007. The highest numbers were in California, Florida, New York State and Texas. Among the 50 states, the lowest numbers were in Vermont, South Dakota, Wyoming and North Dakota.

In 2007, the District of Columbia reported a far higher rate of AIDS diagnoses than any other area (though the rate in the wider Washington area was surpassed by other metropolitan areas). A 2009 local government report found the capital city's HIV prevalence was 3%, including figures as high as 7.2% for 40-49 year olds, and 6.5% for black males.1

AIDS diagnosis rates in Florida, Maryland and Louisiana were much higher than the national average of 12.3 cases per 100,000 population per year.

Estimated number of adults and adolescents living with an AIDS diagnosis or a diagnosis of HIV infection at the end of 2007, and reported AIDS diagnosis rates in 2008, by state and dependent area

Area of residence Living with a diagnosis of HIV infection
 Living with an AIDS diagnosis
 AIDS diagnoses in 2008 per 100,000 population
Alabama 10,093 4,004 8.7
Alaska 618 348 3.2
Arizona 11,581 4,996 9.1
Arkansas 4,892 2,358 5.3
California - 67,208
 13.2
Colorado 10,428 4,238
 7.5
Connecticut 11,107 7,407 10.1
Delaware - 1,874 16.8
District of Columbia - 9,030
 93.3
Florida 91,529 48,492 26.0
Georgia 31,806 19,310 19.7
Hawaii - 1,320 3.0
Idaho 720 320
 2.1
Illinois - 17,070 10.1
Indiana 8,147 3,972
 6.5
Iowa 1,526 910 2.5
Kansas 2,572 1,394 3.9
Kentucky 4,396 2,553 6.9
Louisiana 15,961 8,349
 24.0
Maine - 548
 2.7
Maryland - 16,510 27.6
Massachusetts - 9,455 5.8
Michigan 13,295 7,123 7.0
Minnesota 5,910 2,530 4.0
Mississippi 7,955 3,357 12.6
Missouri 11,058
 5,756 8.5
Montana - 203
 3.0
Nebraska 1,501
 785
 4.3
Nevada 6,665 3,022 12.4
New Hampshire 1,118 606 2.1
New Jersey 34,766 18,943 17.6
New Mexico 2,222 1,306 5.1
New York 126,849 74,544 23.5
North Carolina 22,896 9,425 12.5
North Dakota 160 74 2.4
Ohio 15,471 7,410 5.8
Oklahoma 4,628 2,373
 4.7
Oregon - 2,916 5.6
Pennsylvania - 18,523 11.3
Rhode Island - 1,390 7.4
South Carolina 13,905 7,181
 15.5
South Dakota 378 147 1.4
Tennessee 14,222 6,743 9.6
Texas 60,825 33,238 12.0
Utah 2,169 1,198 2.7
Vermont - 251 1.8
Virginia 19,951 9,223 8.2
Washington - 5,578 6.2
West Virginia 1,435 799 4.5
Wisconsin 4,773 2,271 3.0
Wyoming 193 104
 2.9
Subtotal 577,452 458,686 12.2
American Samoa 2 1 0.0
Guam 99 34 3.1
Northern Mariana Islands 13 3 1.9
Puerto Rico 18,691 10,932 20.7
U.S. Virgin Islands 574 316 12.7
Subtotal 19,379 11,286 19.3
Total 596,831 469,972 12.3

Values in each column may not sum to the column total, as the column totals for estimated numbers were calculated independently of the values for the subpopulations.

AIDS statistics by city

Over one million cases of AIDS have been reported in the U.S. since the beginning of the epidemic, and of those with known residence, 85% were reported in major metropolitan areas.

New York has accounted for almost a fifth of all cases, with Los Angeles (66,005) and Miami (62,414) also providing substantial numbers.

In 2008, the highest rates of new AIDS diagnoses were in Miami (42.8 per 100,000 people), Baton Rouge (40), New Orleans (32.4) and Baltimore (32.3).

AIDS diagnoses in 2008 and cumulative diagnoses (from the beginning of the epidemic to year-end 2007) by USA metropolitan area of residence

Area of residence AIDS diagnoses in 2008 per 100,000
population
 Cumulative
diagnoses
Akron, OH 3.2
 833
Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY 9.8
 2,509
Albuquerque, NM 6.1
 1,565
Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ 6.4 1,541
Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta, GA 25.3
 26,404
Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC 13.9
 2,133
Austin-Round Rock, TX 12.3 5,318
Bakersfield, CA 16.1
 1,989
Baltimore-Towson, MD 32.3
 23,571
Baton Rouge, LA 40.0 4,476
Birmingham-Hoover, AL 8.2
 2,890
Boise City-Nampa, ID 2.1 311
Boston, MA-NH 5.3 14,827
Bradenton-Sarasota-Venice, FL
 13.0 2,230
Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, CT 11.6 4,119
Buffalo-Niagara Falls, NY 10.2
 2,789
Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL 13.9 1,954
Charleston-North Charleston, SC 16.5 2,308
Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord, NC-SC 15.6
 3,975
Chattanooga, TN-GA 9.8 1,112
Chicago, IL-IN-WI 11.9 33,901
Cincinnati-Middletown, OH-KY-IN 7.7
 3,145
Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor, OH 7.8
 4,697
Colorado Springs, CO 3.5 632
Columbia, SC 25.6 3,728
Columbus, OH 7.3
 3,636
Dallas, TX 14.5 22,220
Dayton, OH 8.4
 1,404
Denver-Aurora, CO 11.5
 7,585
Des Moines, IA 4.5 597
Detroit, MI 10.9
 11,684
El Paso, TX 9.0
 1,719
Fresno, CA 9.4
 1,720
Grand Rapids-Wyoming, MI 5.0
 924
Greensboro-High Point, NC 13.3
 1,497
Greenville, SC 9.3
 1,430
Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA 9.9 1,403
Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT 10.8 5,623
Honolulu, HI 2.7
 2,305
Houston-Baytown-Sugar Land, TX 17.1 28,563
Indianapolis, IN 12.3
 4,227
Jackson, MS 23.0 2,744
Jacksonville, FL 26.9 6,910
Kansas City, MO-KS 11.9
 5,357
Knoxville, TN 8.9
 1,006
Lakeland, FL 19.1 2,097
Lancaster, PA 5.0 837
Las Vegas-Paradise, NV 15.5 5,318
Little Rock-North Little Rock, AR 6.3 1,576
Los Angeles, CA 18.1 66,005
Louisville, KY-IN 12.1
 2,689
Madison, WI 3.3 582
McAllen-Edinburg-Pharr, TX 4.7
 748
Memphis, TN-MS-AR 15.8
 5,718
Miami, FL 42.8
 62,414
Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis, WI 5.7 2,772
Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI 5.5 4,783
Modesto, CA 7.6
 776
Nashville-Davidson-Murfreesboro, TN 12.9 4,364
New Haven-Milford, CT 10.8 4,987
New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner, LA 32.4
 9,860
New York, NY-NJ-PA 24.6 214,870
Ogden-Clearfield, UT 1.2 287
Oklahoma City, OK 6.6
 2,533
Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA 5.1
 1,170
Orlando, FL 20.5 9,929
Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA 4.1
 1,116
Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL 9.8
 1,660
Philadelphia, PA-NJ-DE-MD 18.8 32,402
Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ 10.6
 8,489
Pittsburgh, PA 6.0
 3,480
Portland-South Portland, ME 4.1
 623
Portland-Vancouver-Beavertown, OR-WA 7.3
 5,250
Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown, NY 13.9 3,432
Providence-New Bedford-Fall River, RI-MA 6.6
 4,303
Provo-Orem, UT 1.0
 137
Raleigh-Cary, NC 17.3
 2,559
Richmond, VA 11.1
 3,831
Riverside-San Bernadino-Ontario, CA 7.1
 9,861
Rochester, NY 13.7 3,507
Sacramento-Arden-Arcade-Roseville, CA 4.0
 4,446
St. Louis, MO-IL 10.1
 6,775
Salt Lake City, UT 4.8
 1,881
San Antonio, TX 9.9 5,597
San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos, CA 15.4 14,442
San Francisco, CA 20.9
 44,002
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA 8.6 4,300
San Juan-Caguas-Guaynabo, PR 24.9 23,658
Scranton-Wilkes-Barre, PA 4.6 613
Seattle, WA 8.5
 9,904
Springfield, MA 6.5
 2,368
Stockton, CA 10.1
 1,289
Syracuse, NY 8.8
 1,469
Tampa-St Petersburg-Clearwater, FL 19.5
 12,668
Toledo, OH 6.6
 948
Tucson, AZ 7.2
 2,188
Tulsa, OK 4.9
 1,696
Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA 8.3
 5,322
Washington, DC-VA-MD-WV 25.9 36,328
Wichita, KS 3.9
 924
Worcester, MA 5.3
 2,019
Youngstown-Warren-Boardman, OH-PA 4.5
 619
Subtotal for metropolitan areas with 500,000 or more population 15.1 933,931
Metropolitan areas with 50,000 to 499,999 population 7.5 105,524
Nonmetropolitan areas
 5.1 62,062
Total (including persons of unknown residence) 12.3 1,105,592

Values in each column may not sum to the column total, as the column totals for estimated numbers were calculated independently of the values for the subpopulations.

Notes

  • The latest statistics on HIV and AIDS in the USA were published in June 2010 by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In order to make better use of the data collected, the CDC made a number of changes from previous reports, including replacing the older definition 'HIV/AIDS' with 'diagnosis of HIV infection'. 'Summary of Changes to the National HIV Surveillance Report' contains more information.
  • AIDS statistics include data from 50 states, the District of Columbia and 5 dependent U.S. areas. HIV statistics are based on data from only 37 states and 5 U.S. dependent areas. Although all 50 states have now implemented confidential name-based HIV infection reporting, only 37 states have been doing so long enough for the CDC to apply statistical adjustments. The HIV Surveillance Report for 2012 (published in 2014) will be the first time HIV data from all 50 states will be included.
  • States and areas that use confidential name-based HIV infection reporting take personal details after diagnosis of HIV infection. When this data is submitted to the CDC all personal identifying information is removed.
  • There is often a delay between the time of diagnosis of HIV or AIDS, or the time of death, and the time at which the event is reported. For this reason the CDC estimates the number of people living with HIV or AIDS by adjusting for reporting delays. No adjustment is made for incomplete reporting.
  • The term 'living with AIDS' includes every living person who has ever received an AIDS diagnosis, regardless of their current state of health. The term 'living with a diagnosis of HIV infection' includes every living person with a diagnosis of HIV infection regardless of stage of disease at diagnosis.
  • On this page 'adults and adolescents' are defined as persons aged 13 years or more. The term 'transmission route' refers to the most probable route of transmission of HIV infection. The term 'male-to-male sexual contact' includes gay men, bisexual men and some men who consider themselves to be neither gay nor bisexual. The 'heterosexual contact' category comprises persons who report specific heterosexual contact with a person with, or at high risk for, HIV infection (e.g., an injection drug user). This does not include adults and adolescents born in, or who had sex with someone born in, a country where heterosexual transmission was believed to be the main mode of HIV transmission, unless they meet the criteria stated in the previous sentence.
  • The statistics by city table contains data for Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) as defined by the Office of Management and Budget.

Sources

References

  1. District of Columbia Department of Health (2009), 'District of Columbia HIV/AIDS Epidemiology Update 2008'

Last updated July 20, 2010