STATISTICALLY SPEAKING

According to the most recent CDC report, released in 2009, as of 2007 African Americans accounted for the majority of the estimated number of AIDS diagnoses made during 2007. In the Northeast, Midwest the African Americans were over 46% of diagnoses and in the South, 61%.

*Source: CDC. HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report, 2007. Vol. 19. Atlanta: US Department of Health and Human Services, CDC: 2009. http://www.cdc.gov/ hiv/topics/surveillance/resources/ reports/2007report/default.htm.

The Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs), populations of 50,000 or more*, that have the highest number of reported AIDS cases were New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Washington, DC and Philadelphia. The MSAs with the highest rates (per 100,000) of reported AIDS cases were Miami, New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Washington, DC and Baltimore.

Cities that were above the national average of 12.7 cases per 100,000* are Baltimore (29.6), Baton Rouge (31.4), Bridgeport/Stamford/Norwalk (15.6), Cape Coral/Ft. Meyers (14.2), Charleston-NC/SC (15.7), Chicago (13.2), Columbia (25.3), Dallas (13.1), El Paso (18.4), Harrisburg/Carlisle (14.7), Hartford (17.0), Houston (17.0), Jackson (26.0), Jacksonville (23.1), Kansas City (15.0), Lakeland (13.4), Las Vegas (15.1), Los Angeles (15.0), Louisville (14.3), Memphis (19.9), Miami (33.1.), Nashville (14.7), New Haven (16.8), New Orleans (31.5.), New York (27.1), Orlando (22.7), Philadelphia (21.9), Raleigh (14.6), San Diego (16.1), San Francisco (26.0), San Juan, PR (22.7), Springfield (15.5), Tampa-St. Pete (17.2), VA Beach/Norfolk/Newport News (12.7), Washington, DC (30.5).

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