AIDS Statistics in America

The impact of AIDS in America has largely been on the Afro-Caribbean community and of all the AIDS and HIV cases in America today, Afro-Caribbean sufferers account for 50%. Up to the year 2006 taking into account 50 states and D.C approximately 390,000 white people were diagnosed with AIDS or HIV. In contrast to this there were about 409,000 black people diagnosed and approximately 172,000 AIDS diagnoses of people of other ethnicity.

Although AIDS is still a major factor of fatality in Africa and is largely prevalent there it does also have a significant impact on Americans. Here are some important AIDS statistics in America.

In 1981 only about 30 people died from AIDS in America but in 2006 there were around 14,627 deaths from AIDS in America. In the United States alone there have been a total of around half a million deaths as a result of HIV or AIDS. This is relatively small when compared with South Africa who suffers half a million deaths every single year as a result of AIDS and HIV. HIV and AIDS is a dangerous and fatal illness that there is still no cure for regardless of where you are from. It affects everyone and anyone can catch HIV and develop AIDS. This makes it all the more important to raise HIV and AIDS awareness in both Africa and America. Despite AIDS having a large foothold in America many people still do not understand the facts about HIV and AIDS with a large proportion of the population believing there is a cure for AIDS and that AIDS and HIV are one and the same.