HIV/AIDS & Gender
- According to the CDC, women continued to account for a growing proportion of new AIDS cases nationally, rising from 7% in 1986 to 27% in 2004. The most recent data (2004) show that African American women account for 67% of new AIDS cases among women; and Latinas account for 15% of those cases.
- Nationally, new HIV infections reported in 2003 among women (in the 35 areas with confidential name-based HIV infection reporting) were primarily attributable to heterosexual sex (77%), and injection drug use (21%).
- The AIDS epidemic in California continues to exist predominantly among men. The proportion of cumulative AIDS cases among women in California is smaller (8%) than that for the United States (19%).
AIDS Cases by Gender: 1981-Present
| Location |
Women |
Men |
Children |
Transgender |
| United States |
178,463 |
756,399 |
9,443 |
N/A[1] |
| California |
11,791 |
129,313 |
653 |
757 |
| San Francisco |
1,050 |
25,366 |
38 |
351 |
Percentage of AIDS Cases by Gender: United States, California, and San Francisco, 1981-Present
1) Transgender figures are not broken out in U.S. data.
Page last updated:
9/17/2007