AIDS Rate (per 100,000)

Although the majority of new HIV infections and AIDS cases occur among men, the impact of the disease on women has grown significantly since the beginning of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. In 1995, women represented only 8% of AIDS diagnoses but by the year 2007 they represented 27% of all AIDS diagnoses.¹ Women of color, particularly Black women, are disproportionately affected by HIV/AIDS—in 2007 Black women accounted for nearly two-thirds of new AIDS diagnoses among women.² Research suggests that women with HIV/AIDS face increased barriers to care and disparities in access relative to their male counterparts.³ Women also experience unique interactions between the virus and their reproductive health system. HIV is transmitted more efficiently from men to women during sexual intercourse, and women with HIV are at an increased risk of contracting a variety of reproductive conditions, including human papillomavirus and cervical cancer.⁴

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].

State	State Overall Data	State Grade	State Rank
Alabama	5.8	S-	33
Alaska	3.4	S-	23
Arizona	4.0	S-	29
Arkansas	3.8	S-	28
California	4.2	S-	30
Colorado	2.1	S-	16
Connecticut	11.3	S-	43
Delaware	14.4	S-	46
District of Columbia	90.2	F	51
Florida	17.0	S-	48
Georgia	12.3	S-	44
Hawaii	1.7	S-	10
Idaho	0.5	S	2
Illinois	5.8	S-	33
Indiana	2.9	S-	21
Iowa	1.0	S	5
Kansas	1.8	S-	11
Kentucky	3.6	S-	26
Louisiana	14.7	S-	47
Maine	1.0	S	5
Maryland	22.2	S-	50
Massachusetts	6.0	S-	35
Michigan	3.5	S-	25
Minnesota	1.8	S-	11
Mississippi	8.2	S-	40
Missouri	4.2	S-	30
Montana	1.5	S-	9
Nebraska	1.9	S-	13
Nevada	6.2	S-	36
New Hampshire	2.5	S-	20
New Jersey	10.3	S-	42
New Mexico	1.9	S-	13
New York	17.7	S-	49
North Carolina	7.8	S-	38
North Dakota	0.7	S	4
Ohio	3.2	S-	22
Oklahoma	3.6	S-	26
Oregon	2.2	S-	18
Pennsylvania	10.0	S-	41
Rhode Island	3.4	S-	23
South Carolina	13.0	S-	45
South Dakota	1.2	S-	7
Tennessee	7.9	S-	39
Texas	7.2	S-	37
Utah	1.2	S-	7
Vermont	0.0	S	1
Virginia	4.9	S-	32
Washington	2.2	S-	18
West Virginia	2.1	S-	16
Wisconsin	1.9	S-	13
Wyoming	0.5	S	2

Data Source: AIDS Rate (per 100,000 population), 2007.

EXPLANATION: This measure includes female adult/adolescent (age 13 and older) annual AIDS rates per 100,000 women, for cases reported in 2007.

SOURCE: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report, 2007. Vol. 19. Atlanta: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; 2009:[pg 17].

http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/surveillance/resources/reports/2007report/ . Data for race/ethnicity at the national level are from Table 6b. 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 2007,” available at http://www.statehealthfacts.org.

Footnotes

¹ Kaiser Family Foundation, “Women and HIV/AIDS in the United States,” September, 2009, available at http://www.kff.org/hivaids/upload/6092-07.pdf
² Ibid.
³ Ibid.
⁴ National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, “HIV Infection in Women,” (Bethesda: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, 2008), available at http://www.niaid.nih.gov/topics/hivaids/understanding/population%20speci...