Findings of a survey conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics estimated that approximately 1 in 200 adults aged 18 and 49 are living with HIV.
Surveys conducted between 1999-2006 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Health Statistics, suggest that approximately 0.47 percent of the U.S. household population (aged 18-49) are infected with HIV. Data was generated from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES).
The report did not provide information on how many of these infections are newly acquired (incidence of disease). The incidence of disease is the number of new cases of disease among a certain group of people during a certain period of time, generally a year.
Prevalence of disease, on the other hand, indicates the total number of people in a population with a certain disease at a given time. As an example, a person diagnosed with HIV will be reflected in the incidence and prevalence numbers of HIV infection in their first year of diagnosis, but only in prevalence numbers for subsequent years.
Survey findings:
- Men are more likely to be infected than women (0.7% versus 0.2%).
- 2% of black adults were more likely to be infected than white and Mexican-American adults (2% versus 0.23% and 0.3%, respectively).
- Adults infected with herpes simplex type 2 virus (HSV-2) are at least 15 times more likely to be infected with HIV (approximately 2% of HSV-2 positive adults also have HIV).
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New Report Provides Information on HIV Prevalence in the U.S. Household Population
