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African Americans make up only 12 percent of the United States of America (USA) population, and yet accounted for over 46 percent of all HIV diagnoses in 2011. It is immediately clear that African Americans are the population group most affected by HIV and AIDS in the USA.
In this article, ‘African American’ refers to African American people, or black Americans, that are living in the United States of America (USA).
Key statistics–African American HIV epidemic
Between 2008-2011, African Americans accounted for:
- 64 percent of all HIV infections among women
- 67 percent of all HIV infections among children below 13 years old
- 42 percent of all HIV infections among adolescent and adult males
- 64 percent of all HIV infections among adolescent and adult females.
The estimated lifetime risk of becoming infected with HIV is 1 in 16 for African American men, and 1 in 32 for African American women, a far higher risk than for people of other ethnic backgrounds or races. The rate (per 100,000 population) of new HIV infections is 8 times larger among the African American community, than that among white people, based on population size.
Since the beginning of the HIV epidemic in the 1980s, over half of people who have died of AIDS-related illnesses were African American.
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