AIDS Rate

There were an estimated 37,930 cases of AIDS diagnosed in 2005, 26% of which were in adult or adolescent women.(1) The incidence of AIDS is most prevalent among women of color. HIV/AIDS was the leading cause of death for Black women age 25 to 34 years in 2004.(2)

How many women have been diagnosed with AIDS?

The Report Card benchmark is the Healthy People 2010 goal of having an AIDS incidence rate of no more than 1 new case per 100,000 population (when applied to women) [Healthy People 2010 Objective 13-1].

Data Source: AIDS Rate (per 100,000 population), 2005

EXPLANATION:

This measure includes female adult/adolescent (age 13 and older) annual AIDS rates per 100,000 women, for cases reported in 2005.

SOURCE:

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report 17 (2005), Fig. 2, 12. Data for race/ethnicity at the national level are from Table 5a. The national number includes the 50 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories. State overall data are from The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, "Adult and Adolescent Annual AIDS Case Rate per 100,000 Population, by Sex, Reported in 2005" available at http://www.statehealthfacts.org.

  State Overall Data State Grade State Rank
ALABAMA 6.8 S- 34
ALASKA 2.7 S- 18
ARIZONA 3.6 S- 27
ARKANSAS 5.2 S- 31
CALIFORNIA 3.6 S- 27
COLORADO 2.8 S- 19
CONNECTICUT 15.6 S- 44
DELAWARE 18.9 S- 47
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 100.0 F 51
FLORIDA 20.2 S- 48
GEORGIA 17.0 S- 46
HAWAII 2.2 S- 15
IDAHO 1.0 S 6
ILLINOIS 7.5 S- 38
INDIANA 3.4 S- 25
IOWA 2.2 S- 15
KANSAS 1.7 S- 11
KENTUCKY 3.3 S- 22
LOUISIANA 15.7 S- 45
MAINE 0.7 S 5
MARYLAND 24.2 S- 50
MASSACHUSETTS 7.1 S- 35
MICHIGAN 4.5 S- 29
MINNESOTA 3.0 S- 21
MISSISSIPPI 10.2 S- 42
MISSOURI 2.9 S- 20
MONTANA 0.5 S 3
NEBRASKA 2.0 S- 13
NEVADA 4.9 S- 30
NEW HAMPSHIRE 1.8 S- 12
NEW JERSEY 10.6 S- 43
NEW MEXICO 3.5 S- 26
NEW YORK 23.6 S- 49
NORTH CAROLINA 7.3 S- 37
NORTH DAKOTA 0.4 S 1
OHIO 3.3 S- 22
OKLAHOMA 3.3 S- 22
OREGON 2.1 S- 14
PENNSYLVANIA 7.2 S- 36
RHODE ISLAND 6.1 S- 33
SOUTH CAROLINA 9.8 S- 41
SOUTH DAKOTA 0.6 S 4
TENNESSEE 8.6 S- 40
TEXAS 7.7 S- 39
UTAH 1.2 S- 7
VERMONT 0.4 S 1
VIRGINIA 5.6 S- 32
WASHINGTON 2.6 S- 17
WEST VIRGINIA 1.4 S- 8
WISCONSIN 1.4 S- 8
WYOMING 1.4 S- 8
 
S (Satisfactory): 6  
S- (Satisfactory Minus): 44  
U (Unsatisfactory): 0  
F (Fail): 1  

1Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, "HIV/AIDS among women," March 2007, available at http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/women/resources/factsheets/women.htm.

2 Ibid.