A new report from the CDC shows despite an overall decline in the rate of HIV diagnoses in the U.S. since 2005, rates among groups like gay and bisexual men in the South are not improving, according to Reuters.
Here are 10 key statistics on the current state of new HIV infections in the U.S., as presented by Reuters.
- New HIV diagnoses have fallen by 20 percent since 2005.
- The 2014 estimated rate of HIV infection was 13.8 per 100,000 people.
- Males accounted for 81 percent of all new adolescent and adult diagnoses in 2014.
- About 70 percent of new HIV diagnoses in 2014 were linked to adults and adolescents with male-to-male sexual contact and injection drug use.
- Since 2005, new HIV infections among white gay and bisexual men dropped 18 percent.
- Contrarily, new HIV infections in the last decade increased among Latino gay and bisexual men (18 percent) and African American gay and bisexual men (22 percent).
- These groups have seen some progress since 2010, however. The CDC reported rates for Latinos remained stable since 2010 and rates for African Americans, Pacific Islanders and those of multiple races have decreased in the past five years.
- Rates for American Indians, Alaska natives and Asians have increased in the past five years.
- Though rates of HIV diagnoses have dropped since 2010 in the South and Northeast, those regions still had the highest incidence of new diagnoses in 2014, at 18.5 per 100,000 people and 14.2 per 100,000 people, respectively.
- Rates in the West are 11.2 per 100,000 and 8.2 per 100,000 in the Midwest in 2014, and remained stable since 2010.
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