Dr. Boyce: Black Female HIV Rates Now Rival Those in Africa
As we prepare to recognize National Women and Girls HIV Awareness Day, a new research study has served as a wake up call for a community that might have gone too far.  The Center for Disease Control now estimates that 1 out of every 32 black women will be infected with HIV during her lifetime.  Although black women represent only 14 percent of the US female population, they constitute 66 percent of all new HIV infections.  The infection rates of black women in the United States rival those in the Congo and Kenya.
After hearing about this alarming study and realizing that I have daughters that I have to protect, my mind starting racing. Â I thought about the things I’ve observed after countless conversations with other black men and interacting with black women in the dating pool. Â I also thought about what I’ve read and analyzed as a social commentator and scholar, thus coming to these conclusions:
1) We must take a serious look at the prison industrial complex: The war on drugs sent hundreds of thousands of black men to prison for long periods of time.  This dramatic move was no less devastating to the black family ecosystem than removing an entire species from the animal kingdom.  Women have fewer men to marry, the children of these men grow up without fathers, and men come out of prison without the ability to provide for a family.  Additionally, the fact that we’ve decided to make prison rape into some kind of joke at cocktail parties means that many lives are lost when women are infected by the men for whom they’ve been waiting.
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These numbers are alarming 1 out of 32 black woman is infected. The crazy part about it all is that about half the woman that look on this site won’t even read this article. I think alot of people don’t take this serious ENOUGH! As a black woman I pray that this will not kill US.
I read this article and I also read another article on this same subject that said in Some US cities and the rates were different. They were 24 for every 10,000 black women here and 28 for every 10,000 black women in Africa. Either way, black women had better leave this prison garbage and thug scum alone.
HIV the silent and effective genocidal agent for Black People to date. Education and action based on such education is the only way to stop it…So the onus is on us to educate ourselves about the disease and to take immediate action….Based on our history, are such actions our strengths? Hence, the effectiveness of HIV to wipe us off the face of the earth in another 100 years or so? Hmmmm…Food for thought.
People are taking these estimates as if they are true facts. It is only someones estimate or wish that 1 out of every 32 Black females will have AIDS. It causes one to even question THEIR statistics. There should be moral standards set but not out of fear because of someone which may be Black peoples enemy forecasting doom for Black people.
1st, All so-called HIV tests (31 of them) are plagued with false positives and non-specificity (which means that they screen for antibody activity in your system which is supposedly tied to HIV virus). But if u get the flu, your body (white blood cells) produce antibodies to fight your infection. If u go get a HIV Test, your antibody count will be high resulting in a HIV positive reading. If you go to the doctor for a cold and he prescribes antibiotics and then take a HIV test , guess what? There are currently over 70 illnesses and conditions that can register a positive reading on the so-called HIV Tests including pregnancy.
Question, how could a virus discriminate according to race and gender? If the Flu or any other virus hits a particular area or popluation, it effects EVERYONE regardless of race or gender.
In Africa, 95% of the people are not tested but are diagnosed visually by doctors (Bangui Definition). How can I tell visually if a person has Aids or has malaria or TB? There is so much more than meets the eye.
Congo and Kenya are not Africa, and it would be better to have their comparative statistics. I too have long wondered what kind of disease is this one that is racist. Also in Africa, the tests are done in isolated cities and generalized to all nations. What about poverty that black people find themselves in? Is this the disease for blacks or the poor?
AIDS is not killing millions of Black people. According to the CDC (who keeps changing their numbers sporadically), an average of 16,959 people have died from AIDS in the past 5 yrs. That’s about 28 people per state per month who have died from AIDS. Where the epidemic or pandemic?
The ‘discovery’ and ‘isolation’ of HIV was tainted by scientific fraud which was confirmed in the Dingle Subcommittee Hearings in Congress in 1992
Without proper isolation, there can never be a proper screening for this so-called virus. HIV has never been isolated…
HIV is has NEVER been found in blood, s***n, nor saliva. If anyone has anything to the contrary, please share the information and resource from which it came from (and please don’t start with the CDC ’cause they don’t reveal where they get their ‘facts’ from).
The main risks for developing AIDS are not HIV but malnutrition, toxic exposure, narcotic drug use (injection, inhaled and oral), retroviral chemotherapies (AZT, etc.), unsanitary water, and an excess of free radicals within the blood stream (acidification of the blood pH). I could go on and on about this topic, but I think that we should research any info that I or the media gives us
From 1981 to 1993, HIV/Aids was a white gay male disease (actually the 1st 10,000 deaths were white males)…..How did this become a Black disease?
Also, according to the 2000 US Census, there are close to 100,000,000 white men in the US and close to 18,000,000 Black men…….How could there be more black males catching this so-called disease when it is safe to say more white males practice this lifestyle? It is white males who 1st practiced the ‘down low’ phenom….Why aren’t more white females in San Francisco diagnosed?
Quotes from the scientific community………..
“The HIV hypothesis of AIDS is the biggest scientific, medical blunder of the 20th Century. The evidence is overwhelming thatAIDS is not contagious, sexually transmitted, or caused by HIV.â€
Dr. David Rasnick, PhD, Biochemist, University of California, developer of the Protease Inhibitor.
“ I can’t find a single virologist who will give me a references which show that HIV is the probable of AIDS…..there should be a set of scientific documents somewhere, research papers written by people who are accessible, demonstrating this. But they are not available. If you ask a virologist for that information you don’t get an answer, you get fury.â€
Dr Kary Mullis, 1993 Nobel Prize winner for chemistry, inventor of PCR (viral load). Interview with Neville Hodgkinson, Sunday Times, April 26, 1992.
“There is simply no proof that HIV causes AIDS – at most, it seems to play only an opportunistic role. The only thing scientists have to call HIV are protein and gene strands – they haven’t even isolated a virus at all…â€
12, January 1997 Sunday Times; Dr Kriben Pillay, PhD, University of Durban-Westville, South Africa
“The transmission of AIDS from person to person is a myth. The homosexual transmission of AIDs in Western countries, as well as the heterosexual transmission of AIDs in Africa and in other underdeveloped countries, is an assumption without any scientific validation.†http://www.virusmyth.net, Sept. 2000 Dr. Roberto Giraldo, MD, specialist in internal medicine, infectious and tropical diseases.
“There is no scientific literature about Aids in Africa. It is 100 per cet ad hominem, anecdotal trash….Diseases that are calledAids are classical African diseases in populations that have for a very long time been subject to these infections.” Dr Harvey Bialy, scientific editor of Bio/Technology & American molecular biologist
“There are too many shortcomings in the theory that HIV causes all signs of AIDS. We are seeing people HIV-infected for 9,10, 12 years or more, and they are still in good shape, their immune system is still good. It is unlikely that these people will come with AIDS later.” (Elinor Burkett, “Is HIV Guilty?”, Miami Herald 23 Dec. 1990)
- Dr Luc Montagnier, DISCOVER of so-called HIV
I think a big part of this, is so many men refuse to get tested for s****l diseases on a regular basis when they are having s*x with many partners. Everyone should always be tested if they are sexually active. If you are going into a new relationship, it is really important to both be tested first.
The question should be “Do I know what I am getting tested for?” . Because HIV has no test. Every test acknowledges antibody activity, not the presence of HIV. I wish people would do more research instead of taking the CDC and NIH viewpoint on what is going on……..
@Reggie so we should not be alarmed and people should continue to do all the things they are currently doing and they won’t get HIV/AIDs? They can share needles and have unprotected s*x with whoever? The research you are relying on is over 5 years old, therefore your information is all opinion that falls in line with typical conspiracy myths that keeps our community health illiterate. You dismiss CDCs data that is reported by the state department of healths from each state, but accept U.S census data, both government entities. Why accept ones data as reliable and not the other? I am sure that the scare tactics used may work against us with those who already have issues with us. But our promiscuity and unwillingness to do things the way God intended should raise concern for US! People are dying and your information will help them to continue dying. Yes they are estimates, but that doesn’t mean it is not a problem or will be if we continue. Virus not in the blood or s***n why takes the chance if researchers think it is. They never said you can get it from saliva so I’m not sure why that was indicated.
I agree with you Blessed…I don’t know all the staticis BUT WHY ARE WE EVEN IN A DEBATE WE NEED TO CHANGE OUR HABITS AND MIND SET ABOUT FREE s*x AND l**t!! These virus or diseases are KILLING AND MAKING PEOPLE SICK. Lets STOP BEING IN DENIAL AND START THE DEBATE TO GET THIS KNOWLEDGE OUT AND TO CHANGE MIND SETS. Knowledge IS POWER
@ Blessed and Highly favored….Thanks for your responses. I appreciate someone who can at least think about what I am saying. 1st, I use the CDC, NIH, and every traditional source of info regarding HIV/Aids as well. I say don’t be alarmed because regardless of the age of the info, the facts remain true. I can suggest you check out the documentary, ‘Hidden Colors’ which is fairly new (google video). It doesn’t matter the age of the information if one can’t disprove what is being said. (Assuming with your moniker) You are a Christian and read from a book that has been written and rewritten (over 200 times) for the past 2,000 yrs (give or take), yet very few are questioning its validity because of its age. 2nd, how do u know if its ‘conspiracy theories’ if you can’t refute it with facts and research? The CDC heavily relies on surveys from public health depts, but its a known fact that surveys are not reliable and can’t be trusted. Also, what about those who can afford to go to private clinics or personal doctors? 3rd, Blessed, you and I know that white males outnumber Black males at least 10 to1 (no matter what source you go to), thus how can HIV/Aids affect Black people disproportionately when we are a smaller statistically speaking? Common sense will tell anyone that virus don’t discriminate according to s*x, gender and race. 4th, People still believe that one can get a virus via saliva, so this is why I put it out there. 5th, give me one scientific paper that finds HIV in blood or s***n. Fact, there are none. 6th, America medical establishment and US govt has have a history of using Black people as guinea pigs (check out Harriet Washington
s ‘Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present’). Black people’s main problem is our dependence for our daily lives and our children’s to an establishment that has clearly shown that it does not have our best interest. And because many of us are too lazy to critically think and question matters that relate to our health, we take what they feed us as the ‘Gospel’ (kind of like what they did in religion as well, but I digress)………Any more questions?
One more fact, there are over 3,000 scientists, doctors, medical journalists, researchers, epidemiologists, biologists, and scholars (including Nobel laureates) in the world who agree with my contentions……
I am in total agreement with Reggie. That’s all I am going to say.
@ Reggie. I am sorry but I think you and people like you are part of the problem. First, I am agnostic, and believe in Fact’s only. Second, it is not about the fact that there are more white people in a ratio to black people. They go by the percentage of any group of people. So that 10% of white men is equal to 10 % of black men, no matter the number of that group as a whole. Getting tested is extremely important, how do you think people find out that they have HIV? A little birdy tells them? Please read the following, as we need to address the problem of this horrible disease spreading throughout our people here in the U.S.
HIV antibody tests are the most appropriate test for routine diagnosis of HIV among adults. Antibody tests are inexpensive and very accurate. The ELISA antibody test (enzyme-linked immunoabsorbent) also known as EIA (enzyme immunoassay) was the first HIV test to be widely used.
How do antibody tests work?
When a person is infected with HIV, their body responds by producing special proteins that fight infection, called antibodies. An HIV antibody test looks for these antibodies in blood, saliva or urine. If antibodies to HIV are detected, it means a person has been infected with HIV. There are only two exceptions to this rule:
Babies born to HIV infected mothers retain their mother’s antibodies for up to 18 months, which means they may test positive on an HIV antibody test, even if they are actually HIV negative. Normally babies who are born to HIV positive mothers receive a PCR test (see below) after birth.
Some people who have taken part in HIV vaccine trials may have HIV antibodies even if they are not infected with the virus.
Most people develop detectable HIV antibodies within 6 to 12 weeks of infection. In very rare cases, it can take up to 6 months and there are nearly always very particular reasons for antibodies developing so late such as other auto-immune disorders. It is exceedingly unlikely that someone would take longer than 6 months to develop antibodies.
@ Reggie………In regards to your absurd statement that 3,000 Drs. & Scientist’s agree with you.
HIV is the cause of AIDS “AIDS is caused by infection with a virus called human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).”1
This is the standard explanation of what causes AIDS. But what evidence do scientists have to support the fact that HIV causes AIDS? And why do some websites say that the world has got it terribly wrong – that HIV does not cause AIDS at all?
As an independent AIDS organisation founded in 1986, AVERT has taken a keen interest in the ongoing debate about what causes AIDS. As well as investigating the consensus position, we have followed and carefully considered the arguments of the dissident minority who claim that HIV is harmless or even that it might not exist. This topic is vitally relevant to how our organisation works to prevent people developing AIDS and to help those who are suffering.
It is AVERT’s considered opinion that the evidence that HIV causes AIDS is abundant and conclusive. This page outlines some of that evidence, while also mentioning how some dissidents have interpreted things differently. In particular, we’ll look for proofs of the following:
AIDS is a new epidemic disease
AIDS does not occur without HIV
HIV infection is the only factor that predicts who will develop AIDS
Surveillance statistics support the HIV theory
Modern antiretroviral treatment is highly beneficial.
@ Reggie: Who doubts that HIV causes AIDS? By far the most significant scientist to question the fact that HIV is the cause of AIDS is Professor Peter Duesberg, a virologist at the University of California at Berkeley, who first wrote about this topic in 1987. Throughout the 1990s and into the new millennium, as HIV and AIDS researchers announced many new discoveries and amassed huge volumes of data, Dr Duesberg remained unconvinced. He admits that HIV exists, but he maintains that it is harmless, and that AIDS is caused by non-contagious factors including drug abuse, malnutrition, and even the very drugs used to combat HIV.2
Other dissidents (often called “denialists” by their opponents) include the Perth Group of medical scientists and physicians from Australia. The Perth Group (led by Eleni Papadopulos) claims that nobody has conclusively proven the existence of HIV, so any proof that HIV causes AIDS has no foundation.3 Dissident arguments have received attention from the popular media, as well as from scientific journals. And with the rise of the Internet, alternative views have found a much wider audience.
Some of their followers are intrigued by conspiracy theories involving sinister drug companies or government persecution of minority groups. But alternative explanations can also appeal to those diagnosed with HIV or AIDS, who read that their condition might not be fatal, that they shouldn’t take toxic drugs, and that unprotected s*x poses no risks. Even a few AIDS service organisations have adopted non-HIV viewpoints.4
However, the proportion of scientists who doubt that HIV causes AIDS is tiny, and shows no sign of increasing. Interest in dissident views appears to have dwindled after the excitement surrounding Thabo Mbeki’s AIDS panel and the Durban Declaration in 2000. It seems likely that new and better evidence, including the obvious benefits of modern drug treatments, has caused many former dissidents to change their minds.
@ Reggie, go to this link for any more questions. And to be perfectly honest, I would rather err on the side of being wrong, and be tested then just IGNORE the whole thing. People are dying, and everything you can do to stop it spreading should be done
Sorry, here is the Link: HIV Causes AIDS …..or put it into your browser if it doesn’t work.
@ Carol Marie, I have been giving you facts, but you refuse to ‘look’. Regarding your agnostic comments, I was addressing ‘Blessed and Highly Favored’ comments. So you want facts regarding the HIV Antibody tests….here’s what the manufacturers have to say……”“EIA [Enzyme Immune Assay or ELISA] is commonly used as a screening assay for many infectious diseases, including HIV. These assays are used because they are highly sensitive and generally amenable to automation, facilitating high-volume testing…The small disadvantage of such a highly sensitive test is that the test produces false positives, the number and type of which vary with the assay used and the HIV prevalence in the tested population. All HIV diagnostic laboratories must confirm repeated EIA screen-positive results by a confirmatory assay, usually with Western blot. Laboratories may choose to first test with a second EIA assay, which uses a different part of the viral antigen for antibody capture, as part of their testing algorithm. Specimens that screen positive in the first assay but negative in the second assay should still be considered for confirmatory testing if the patient is symptomatic or high risk.â€
Fearon M. The laboratory diagnosis of HIV infections. Can J Infect Dis Med Microbiol. 2005 Jan;16(1):26-30.
“AIDS and AIDS-related conditions are clinical syndromes and their diagnosis can only be established clinically. EIA testing cannot be used to diagnose AIDS, even if the recommended investigation of reactive specimens suggests that the antibodies to HIV are present.â€
Human immunodeficiency virus types 1 and 2: (E. coli, B. megaterium, recombinant antigen) HIVAB HIV-1/HIV-2 (rDNA) EIA. Abbott Laboratories. 2004
http://davidcrowe.ca/SciHealthEnv/papers/5017-Abbott-EIA.pdf
“Western Blot assay should not be used as a screening test. WB should be viewed as a supplemental test which can be used to confirm positive results obtained from EIA. However: Specificity is less than that of EIA. A significant number of indeterminate blots are seen in low risk populations.â€
Babu VR. HIV Testing Technologies: ELISA/Western Blot. CDC. 2004 Jan 19-23
“All screening tests [usually ELISA/EIA] are prone to producing occasional weakly-reactive results that very often do not prove to be consistent with HIV infection…Any screening tests may give rise to some weak reactions. In low-risk populations many of these will not be true HIV-positive results…apply a cautious interpretation to specimens that give weak reactions in some or all assays employed, including weak, or few, bands on Western blot…The golden rules are: 1) caution with weak reactions in some or all assays…Specimens from HIV-infected individuals typically give rise to strong, and often maximum, signals in most commercial screening assays whereas falsely reactive specimens infrequently do.â€
Parry JV et al. Towards error-free HIV diagnosis: guidelines on laboratory practice. Commun Dis Public Health. 2003 Dec;6(4):334-50.
http://www.hpa.org.uk/cdph/issues/CDPHvol6/No4/6_4guideline1.pdf
If this doesn’t convince you that the tests are a bunch of horse manure, I doubt anything will.
Regarding your 2nd comments, are you on the CDC’s payroll……I already stated that the guy who supposedly founded ‘HIV’ as the probable cause of AIds was convicted of scientific fraud during a Congressional Hearing in 1993 (google ‘Dingle Subcommittee Hearings). Dr Gallo NEVER proved that HIV exists let alone causes AIds. 2nd, Aids is not a new disease but a collection of 30 or more diseases that exists decades before AIDs (cervical cancer, malaria, pneumonia, etc) . This is why when people supposedly die of AIDs, the doctors say they died of AIDs related pneumonia or malaria, etc.
I care not what AVERT or any other agent of the CDC/WHO/NIH says. Show me the scientific research that says HIV causes AIDS or that HIV exists. I have given quotes from Nobel Laureates, scientists, quotes from manufacturers, etc. And all you got is opinions and links to what the Cdc is expounding. I have given you books and you give me opinions, yet you are supposedly about facts. The fact is that you call yourself an agnostic, but you are no different than someone who believes in a religion. Its just yours is HIV/AIDS.
Peter Duseberg and the others that you state have yet to be proven wrong by the so-call many HIV advocates. What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right. You state, ‘ And to be perfectly honest, I would rather err on the side of being wrong, and be tested then just IGNORE the whole thing.’ This doesn’t make sense. Why do a little more research and find out the truth than to assume that the establishment is right and that you are saving your life by taking a bogus test that only proves that you have a certain level of antibody activity than a virus.
Again, regarding people dying of Aids, let me throw another stat at you. Aids is not even in the top ten regarding the leading causes of death in America. Car accidents and suicides occur more than so-called AIDS death. According to the CDC, an average of 16500 people die each year of ‘AIDS’. That’s less than 30 people per month in each state. That’s not an epidemic.
The fundamental problem with people in America is that we think that the medical establishment was designed and maintained for our benefit and health. Nothing can be further than the truth. Its all about money and sickness not health. Drug therapy that this country pushes does not work and kills more than it helps. I think that its insane to give people toxic drugs such as AZT or give children that mess. You might as well get a gun and kill yourself because NO ONE gets well from a long treatment of AIDS via these toxic (cancer causing) drug therapies. But since you are convince that it does, be my guest. Iatrogenics is the number one killer of people in the US. Check out an independent study that Gary Null among other physicians did to prove that more people die as the result of what hospitals do than anything else.
Carol, if you ever get nerve to look on the other side of the coin, check out a book, ‘ Aids, Opium, Diamonds, and Empire’ by Dr Nancy Turner Banks and Science Sold Out by Rebecca Culshaw. Both of these ladies provide FACTS that can’t be disputed (by any rational person anyway).
@ Mysa, check out the documentary, House of Numbers. You can watch free via youtube or google video. Also, Most Africans do not take HIV Antibody Tests. The WHO came up with the Banqui Definition in which doctors diagnose people based on a certain amount of weight loss, diarrhea, prolong fever, and persistent coughing.
Perhaps we should focus on the beginnings of HIV, or as it was then known HTLV III. Dr. Robert Gallo, in his quest for a Nobel Prize, was determined to discover the viral causation of AIDS. Through great determination, he “isolated” a sample of HTLV III and sent it to their labs for electron microscopy. Here is the letter explaining the results of the microscopy.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150674066673760&set=o.217798101574611&type=1&theater
Correction of an earlier comment – Deaths from car accidents and suicides occur more than Aids death……
@Reggie, sorry it took awhile to get back to your comme nt’s. But, I am very busy with work and other things. To put this simply, I can spend all day with fact’s and scientist’s and Drs. to support my posistion. Just as you can. Because on any subject there are differing opinions. But, President Obama just hired a new director at the white house, so read this and maybe you can see where I am coming from.
I will say that most people who are HIV positive now live much longer because of the new drugs they are taking. But, the drugs I understand are very expensive. I am no expert on this subject, and thankfully am disease free. But, my main concern is that people who are sexually active get tested for all sexually transmitted diseases despite safe s*x practices. If you want to say that is wrong or you don’t agree that is your opinion, but not everyone elses opinion. They have come a long way to treat patient’s ,and there is so much preventative things to make sure you do not get this dreadful disease. You talk about the drugs themselves being so horrible. I am not sure what they are taking now, but whatever it is, it is extending peoples lives. Radiation treatments and chemotherapy are horrible I understand, and yet they too save lives, and wipe out a lot of cases of cancer.
President Obama Announces Grant Colfax as New Director of the Office of National AIDS Policy | The White House
President Obama Announces Grant Colfax as New Director of the Office of National AIDS Policy | The White House
HIV statistics The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that at the end of 2008, there were 682,668 people living with a diagnosis of HIV infection in the 40 states and five U.S. dependent areas. However, the total number of people living with an HIV infection in the U.S. is thought to be more than one million.1 2 The discrepancy between these figures is due to several factors, including:
confidential name-based reporting of HIV diagnoses has not yet been implemented in all states;
anonymous tests, including home tests, are excluded from case reports;
and one in every five people living with HIV has not even had their infection diagnosed, let alone reported.3
During 2009, there were an estimated 42,959 new diagnoses of HIV infection in the 40 states and five dependent areas. Adult or adolescent males accounted for three-quarters of new HIV diagnoses. The main transmission route among males was male-to-male s****l contact (74%), followed by heterosexual contact (14%) and injecting drug use (8%). Among female adult and adolescents, 84.9% were infected through heterosexual contact and 14.8% through injecting drug use.
In 2009 blacks/African Americans made up an estimated 50% of new HIV diagnoses, whites 27%, and Hispanics/Latinos 19%. HIV was diagnosed in an estimated 166 children (<13 years at diagnosis) in 2009, all but 35 became infected through mother-to-child transmission.
back to top AIDS statistics The CDC estimates that by the end of 2008 there were 490,696 people living with an AIDS diagnoses in the United States and five dependent areas, around 38,000 more than 2006. Since 2000 the annual number of new AIDS diagnoses has remained relatively constant, with an estimated 34,993 in 2009. In total, an estimated 1,142,714 people have been diagnosed with AIDS in America since the beginning of the epidemic.
Just over 75% of adults and adolescents living with an AIDS diagnosis are men.
Race/ethnicity of adult and adolescents living with an AIDS diagnosis in the U.S. in 2008
As the pie chart below shows, blacks/African Americans accounted for the largest proportion of people living with an AIDS diagnosis in 2008.
Transmission category of male and female adults and adolescents living with an AIDS diagnosis in the U.S. in 2008
Almost half of male adults and adolescents living with AIDS in 2008 became infected with HIV through male-to-male s****l contact. Two-thirds of female adults and adolescents living with an AIDS diagnosis in 2008 were infected through heterosexual contact.
Deaths among people diagnosed with AIDS
In 1981, the first cases of what is now known as AIDS were reported in the U.S. During the 1980s there was a rapid increase in the number of reported AIDS cases and AIDS deaths. Cases peaked with the 1993 expansion of the case definition,4 and then declined. The most dramatic drops in both cases and deaths began in 1996, with the widespread use of combination antiretroviral therapy.
People with AIDS are now surviving longer and are contributing to a steady increase in the overall number of people living with AIDS. This trend will continue as long as the number of new diagnoses exceeds the number of people dying each year.
The number of deaths of persons with an AIDS diagnosis has stabilised in recent years at around 16,500-18,000 per year. (Deaths of persons with an AIDS diagnosis may be due to any cause).
Since the beginning of the epidemic, an estimated 617,025 people with AIDS have died in the U.S.
United States Statistics by Race and Age
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Black/African American and Hispanic/Latino communities have been disproportionately affected by HIV and AIDS in America.
In 2009 the highest percentage of new HIV diagnoses were among those aged 40-44 years.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) publish HIV statistics for 40 states and 5 dependent areas with confidential name-based HIV infection reporting. AIDS statistics include all 50 states and the District of Columbia, as well as the 5 dependent areas.
back to top HIV and AIDS statistics by race/ethnicity Blacks/African Americans accounted for half of all new HIV diagnoses and just under half of new AIDS diagnoses in 2009. Of the total number of people living with an HIV diagnosis in 2008 in the 40 U.S. states and 5 dependent areas, 46% were black/African American; 31.6% white; 20% Hispanic/Latino; 1.3% multiple races; 0.6% Asian; 0.4% American Indian/Alaska Native; and 0.04% Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander.
Among men diagnosed with AIDS in 2009, 56% of black/African American men, 65% of Hispanic/Latino men and 79% of white men became infected with HIV through male-to-male s****l contact. Among women diagnosed with AIDS in 2009, 78% of black/African American women, 75% of Hispanic/Latino women and 68% of white women became infected through heterosexual contact.
Estimated new adult and adolescent HIV and AIDS diagnoses in 2009, by race/ethnicity
Race/ethnicity HIV AIDS
Males Females Total* Males Females Total*
White 10,098
1,700
11,810
8,126
1,344
9,471
Black/African American 14,914
6,632
21,673
11,109
5,642
16,759
Hispanic/Latino 6,615
1,625
8,263
5,852
1,586
7,442
Asian 365
105
473
349
80
429
American Indian/Alaska Native 137
51
189
127
28
155
Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander 26
10
36
45
7
52
Multiple races
383
132
516
495
192
686
Total* 32,538
10,255
42,959
26,102
8,879
34,993
* 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.
Estimated HIV diagnoses by race/ethnicity and year
Race/ethnicity Year of diagnosis
2006 2007 2008 2009
White 12,103 12,334
11,866
11,810
Black/African American 20,696 20,953
21,730
21,673
Hispanic/Latino 8,562 8,579 8,278 8,263
Asian 366 474 466 473
American Indian/Alaska Native 163 185 193
189
Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander 47 46 34 36
Multiple races 606 631
567
516
Estimated AIDS diagnoses by race/ethnicity and year
Race/ethnicity Year of diagnosis All years*
2006 2007 2008 2009
White 10,487 10,050
9,672
9,471
426,230
Black/African American 17,321 17,194 17,077 16,759 466,829
Hispanic/Latino 7,920 7,696 7,476 7,442 223,671
Asian 422 454 492 429 8,369
American Indian/Alaska Native 145 141 177 155 3,702
Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander 49 55 44 52 851
Multiple races 686 656
616
686
12,749
* Includes all years from the beginning of the epidemic through 2009.
Estimated HIV diagnoses in 2009 by race/ethnicity
Estimated AIDS diagnoses in 2009 by race/ethnicity
Estimated adult and adolescent males living with an AIDS diagnosis in 2008 by race/ethnicity and exposure category
Race/ethnicity Transmission route
Total*
Male-to-male s****l contact Injection drug use Male-to-male s****l contact and injection drug use High-risk heterosexual contact Other
White 110,279 11,914
13,514 5,313 1,582 142,603
Black/African American 65,600 34,234
11,465
26,041
948
138,288
Hispanic/Latino 45,962 19,795 5,876
9,123
562
81,318
Asian 3,152 231 191 403
72
4,049
American Indian/Alaska Native 786
187
245
86
12 1,315
Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander 300 18 22
22
2
364
Multiple races 2,555 888
503
472
45
4,463
Total** 228,727 67,287 31,822 41,467
3,224 372,528
* Because totals are calculated independently of the subpopulations, the values in each column may not sum exactly to the figure in the ‘Total’ column. **Includes persons of unknown race/ethnicity.
Estimated adult and adolescent females living with an AIDS diagnosis in 2008 by race/ethnicity and exposure category
Race/ethnicity Transmission route
Total*
Injection
drug use High-risk heterosexual
contact Other
White 7,851 11,753 550 20,154
Black/African American 20,313 46,851 1,172 68,336
Hispanic/Latino 6,925 15,210
458
22,593
Asian 80 658
78
816
American Indian/Alaska Native 158 237
12
407
Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander 14 60
6 79
Multiple races 630 1,046
35
1,711
Total** 35,981 75,831
2,311 114,123
* Because totals are calculated independently of the subpopulations, the values in each column may not sum exactly to the figure in the ‘Total’ column. **Includes persons of unknown race/ethnicity.
See our AIDS statistics by transmission route and gender for further information.
back to top HIV and AIDS statistics by age More than half a million people diagnosed with AIDS have died in the USA. Around two-thirds of these people did not live to the age of 45.
In 2009 the age group 20-24 accounted for the highest rate of new HIV diagnoses, at 36.7 per 100,000 population.
Between 2006 and 2009 the rates of annual AIDS diagnoses decreased among those aged 30-34, 35-39, 40-44, and 60-64. The rates increased among those aged 15-19 and 20-24.
HIV diagnoses by age, 2006-2009
Age at diagnosis Year of diagnosis
2006 2007 2008 2009
Under 13 221 214 219 166
13-14 60 40 40 21
15-19 1,633 1,892 2,023 2,057
20-24 4,775 5,128 5,757 6,314
25-29 5,537 5,871 5,875 6,068
30-34 5,338 5,192 5,297 5,156
35-39 6,491 6,103
5,610
5,351
40-44 6,774 6,410
5,935
5,665
45-49 5,063 5,211
5,243
4,993
50-54 3,314 3,521
3,372
3,413
55-59 1,771 1,882
1,977
2,047
60-64 820 921
997
932
65 or older 745 819
791
776
AIDS diagnoses by age 2006-2009 and deaths among those living with AIDS in 2008
Age at diagnosis or death Year of diagnosis
Deaths
by year
2006 2007 2008 2009 All years* 2008 All years*
Under 13 42 31
41
13
9,878
5 5,198
13-14 80 81
59
60
1,380
0
299
15-19 410 458
490
488
7,436
44
1,264
20-24 1,659 1,908 1,892 2,110
44,264 168
9,674
25-29 3,412 3,442 3,485 3,531 133,765
497
47,442
30-34 4,378 4,179 4,248 4,120 220,905
833
102,864
35-39 6,397 5,869
5,479
4,996
241,608 1,622
128,050
40-44 7,326 6,844
6,355
5,840
198,832
2,771
117,431
45-49 5,679 5,863 5,669
5,602
130,009
3,273
84,982
50-54 3,722 3,690 3,763 4,080 74,430 2,889
53,423
55-59 2,069 2,045 2,136 2,244 40,286
2,117
30,838
60-64 981 1,016
1,100 1,039 21,331 1,176
17,580
65 or older 873 818 836 872
18,589 1,212
17,979
Total** 37,029 36,244 35,553 34,993 1,142,714 16,605
617,025
* From the beginning of the epidemic through 2007. ** Because totals are calculated independently of the subpopulations, the values in each column may not sum exactly to the figure in the ‘Total’ row.
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back to top•Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2011) ‘Diagnoses of HIV infection and AIDS in the United States and Dependent Areas, 2009′ Volume 21 – 2011
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 have 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 40 states and 5 U.S. dependent areas. Although all 50 states have now implemented confidential name-based HIV infection reporting, only 40 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 s****l 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 s*x 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.
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@ Reggie: well, this seems to answer most questions.
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AIDS denialists claim that HIV does not cause AIDS, that the risks of antiretrovirals outweigh their benefits or that there is not a serious HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa. This webpage explains why these views are wrong.
We have deliberately kept the refutations of these myths on this page short. Instead of providing detailed scientific notes, we usually summarise key scientific findings and then provide links to more detailed refutations for readers who are interested. Additional material will be added to this site over time, to debunk other AIDS denialist myths. We recommend you monitor the site on a regular basis.
Index of Myths We Debunk
1.HIV does not cause AIDS
2.AIDS among minorities in the United States and other industrialised countries is caused by recreational drug use
3.Studies, in particular one conducted by Nancy Padian and her colleagues, show that HIV cannot be transmitted heterosexually
4.AIDS in haemophiliacs is caused by Factor VIII, a clotting agent in donated blood for haemophiliacs, not HIV
5.AIDS in Africa is another name for old diseases caused by poverty
6.There is no serious HIV epidemic in Africa
7.AZT causes AIDS
8.Although antiretrovirals work now, AZT when used as a monotherapy in the late 1980s and early 1990s killed more people than it helped
9.The Concorde trial showed that AZT causes AIDS, or at least that AZT’s risks outweigh its benefits
10.Antiretrovirals have not been tested in clinical trials
11.Antiretrovirals taken by pregnant women are harmful to the foetus
12.The Ugandan HIVNET 012 trial that studied the efficacy of single-dose nevirapine for mother-to-child HIV transmission prevention was scientifically and ethically flawed such that its results are unreliable
13.HIV tests are unreliable and frequently produce false positives
14.False positive HIV test results are likely in pregnant women
15.Tests that measure HIV directly are meaningless because they only find dead virus particles
16.AZT does not triphosphorylate and therefore cannot work
17.HIV cannot be detected post-mortem
18.HIV is an endogenous retrovirus
19.HIV is a harmless passenger virus
20.The fact that some HIV-positive people live in good health without treatment for many years proves that HIV is harmless
LOl……Who cares about who Pres Obama hired? That has nithing to do with if what I put forth is accurate or not. This is not about a position, but scientific research which I have done for the past 9 nine years regarding this subject. Radiation and Chemo don’t extend lives. There’s no proof that it does. Neither does anti-retroviral drugs as well. I have given ample amounts of research so if you read it fine, if you don’t fine as well. Thanks for the dialogue…….
@ Reggie, laugh al you want, but I trust the President. I will agree to disagree with you. But, on the cancer and the effect’s of chemo & radiation, many people have had their tumors disappear after treatment. Some people are very lucky as the tumors never come back. Sometimes the tumors do come back. But, many people are now living a good life cancer free because of those treatments. I’m not a Dr. nor a scientist, but I do use my common sense. I have read and do know people who have survived cancer because of those treatments. For now that is all that works. Despite the many “options” of just changing your diet, or trying some “therapy” that is extremely expensive and does not work. But, like I said we all have our own opinions. And thank-you for the discussion.
Interesting. I was under the impression that black women did not have s*x. I thought that all they did was go to work and go to church.
You can have all the academic , analytical discussions you want to have but the facts are that people are dying because they fell to realize that if you don’t control your freak , it will one day control you . Black women are getting exposed to HIV mostly due to heterosexual s*x with an infected male partner who may or may not know he is infected. Males are getting it from drug use or s*x with a male partner who is infected be that in a gay s****l encounter or as a result of prison rape situation.
Many people refuse to change their s****l practices and use condoms on a regular basis , which will not totally protect you, or get tested on a regular basis and remain monogomous with a partner who gets tested regularly as well.
Black and latino women need to be very particular about who they have s*x with and make some demands and adhere to them when it comes to new s****l encounters. Don’t mix drugs and alcohol with s*x because that can cloud your judgement as well.
HIV is not the most previlent STD infecting young people today and it is very much dependent upon your community and the social practices of your past , present and future intimate partners.
However if you live your s****l life in a promisuous and careless fashion , you significantly increase the changes of one day being exposed to someone who is HIV positive.
Is getting a good one off worth the risk ?
For those of you that know you a hoe, both male and female , for you sake and the sake of others , get tested often, adopt safe s****l practices so you don’t put innocent bystanders at risk.
Women, demand that these men out here show that they love and care about you before giving it up and are willing to be tested , along with you , and use a condom at least for a period of time , and get retested within the next 3-6mos, unless you are
trying to concieve . Some STD’s will kill you if you are carelless regarding yourself and the health of other. Let’s all get serious about saving lives.
God’s word says that we should treat others as we would want to
be treated. Life for all of us would be much better if we just all tried to humble our hearts and hear from heaven, turned from our wicked ways and then watched God work in the lives of his people to heal our communities and our people.
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Wherever you go, there you are. Maybe it’s just human nature, but curiosity about our ancestors provides modern people with clues about our past — and the future of our species, too.
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The brain consists of more than 100 billion nerve cells called neurons, each of which comes equipped with a cell body, axon and dendrite.