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AIDS Awareness Day
In 2002, HIV infection was the leading cause of death for African American women aged 25–34 years.
  • Anonymous and confidential HIV testing
  • Educational resources for friends and family

    Facts:

  • AIDS - the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome - is a disease you get when HIV destroys your body's immune system. Normally, your immune system helps you fight off illness. When your immune system fails you can become very sick and can die.
  • African American and Hispanic American/Latina women make up less than one-fourth of all U.S. women, yet account for more than three-fourths (78%) of AIDS cases.
  • By the end of 2005, 40.3 million people were living with HIV/AIDS, including 17.5 million women and 2.3 million children under the age of 15.
  • Twenty-five years since the onset of the epidemic, prevention is still the only "cure" we have for HIV/AIDS
  • In 2002, HIV infection was the leading cause of death for African American women aged 25–34 years.
  • The primary mode of HIV transmission among African American women was heterosexual contact, followed by injection drug use.
  • Since 1997, 35,584 people have been diagnosed with AIDS in Florida. 53% are Black and 35% are women.
  • At the end of 2003, an estimated 1,039,000 to 1,185,000 persons in the United States were living with HIV/AIDS, with 24-27% undiagnosed and unaware of their HIV infection.
  • African American's are 15 percent of the population in Florida yet account for 49 percent of the AIDS cases and among women, Blacks account for two-thirds of all new infections
  • In 2005 approximately 4.1 million people became newly infected with HIV, while approximately 2.8 million people died of AIDS-related illnesses.

    More facts in the US

    STATE% African American% of AIDS Cases
    Alabama2663
    Florida1549
    Georgia2970
    Mississippi3773
    Tennessee1652
    Delaware--68
    Washington DC--82
    Illinois--52
    Louisiana--66
    Maryland--80
    Michigan--58
    New Jersey--55
    North Carolina--69
    Pennsylvania--73
    South Carolina--73

    Links:

  • http://www.womenshealth.gov/HIV/whatis.cfm
  • http://globalhealth.org/view_top.php3?id=227
  • http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/
  • http://www.who.int/hiv/facts/en/
  • http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/surveillance/basic.htm
  • http://www.chicagodefender.com/page/commentary.cfm?ArticleID=5734
  • http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/pubs/brochure/atrisk.htm
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