Facts

Facts:

AIDS is the leading cause of death for black women aged 25-34 years.

Heterosexual contact was the source of 80% of women with newly diagnosed
infections.

African-American women are 23 times as likely to be infected with the Aids
virus as white women and account for 71.8% of new HIV cases among women in
29 US states.

AIDS is the 3rd leading cause of death for black women aged 35-44 years.

AIDS is the 4th leading cause of death for black women aged 45-54 years.

Of the 126,964 women living with HIV/AIDS, 64% were black, 19% were white,
15% were Hispanic, 1% were Asian or Pacific Islander, and less than 1% were
American Indian or Alaska Native.

HIV infection is the leading cause of death for African American men aged 25
to 44 years.

59% more African Americans have been tested for HIV than white Americans.
CDC

In Washington, DC, alone, 1 in 20 residents is living with HIV - roughly the
same proportion of people as in the sub-Saharan region of Africa.

Of the 1.1 million Americans living with HIV, 20 percent do not know they are
infected, raising the odds that they will infect others.
Black AIDS Institute