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CDC Releases Extended HIV Surveillance Report

June 2011

“On the 30th anniversary of the epidemic, to characterize trends in HIV infection and AIDS in the United States during 1981–2008, CDC analyzed data from the National HIV Surveillance System. …

“For this report, AIDS data reported to CDC by the end of June 2010 from 50 states and DC were analyzed to determine the annual number of AIDS diagnoses, deaths among persons with AIDS, and persons living with AIDS from 1981 through 2008. … Additionally, by using 1) HIV and AIDS data for persons aged ≥13 years at diagnosis from 40 states that have had confidential name-based HIV infection reporting since at least January 2006 and 2) AIDS data from 11 areas, CDC estimated the annual number of persons living with HIV infection using extended back-calculation … .

“At the end of 2008, an estimated 1,178,350 persons aged ≥13 years were living with HIV infection, including 236,400 (20.1%) whose infections had not been diagnosed … . Most (75.0%) persons living with HIV were male, and 65.7% of the males were men who have sex with men (MSM). HIV prevalence rates among blacks or African Americans (1,819.0 per 100,000 population) and Hispanics or Latinos (592.9) were approximately eight times and two and a half times the rate among whites (238.4) … .”

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