3. Promoting HIV Testing in Diverse Populations
The HIV Epidemic in the United States, cont.
The CDC tracks diagnoses of HIV infection information for 7 racial and ethnic groups: American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian, Black/African American, Hispanic/Latino, Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander, White, and Multiple Races. Among these groups, the African American and Latino populations are disproportionately affected by HIV disease, with African Americans experiencing the greatest per-capita burden of the epidemic. [Prejean 2011]
- Although African Americans comprise approximately 14% of the US population, 44% of new HIV infections reported in 2009 were among African Americans:
- Approximately 1 in 16 African American men and 1 in 32 African American women will be diagnosed with HIV infection at some point in their lives.
- In 2009, the estimated rate of new HIV infections among African American men was 6.5 times as high as that of white men and more than 2.5 times as high as those of Latino men and black women. Moreover, the estimated rate of new HIV infections among African American women was 15 times that of white women and > 3 times that of Latina women.
- Although Latinos comprised 16% of the US population, they accounted for 20% of new HIV infections in 2009.
- In 2009, the estimated rate of new HIV infections among Latino men was 2.5 times that of white men, with the rate among Latina women at 4.5 times that of white women.
Data include persons with a diagnosis of HIV infection regardless of stage of disease at diagnosis. [CDC 2010]
A Hispanic/Latino person can be of any race/ethnicity.
