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Maryland is in top ten states for cumulative AIDS cases with 23,537. (Center for Disease Control)

Washington, DC is in top five metropolitan areas for cumulative AIDS cases with 24,844. (CDC)

Worldwide, about 1 person out of 100, ages 15-49, is HIV positive. (Johns Hopkins AIDS Service)

In 2002, about 2,000 kids younger than 15 and 6,000 young people from 15 to 24 were newly infected with HIV every day. (US Dept. of Health and Human Services)

10. One of every two hundred college student is infected by HIV. College age youth (18-24) have one of the fastest growing rates of infection in the United States. (CDC)

In the US, Caucasians are the most infected with 364,458 known cases; African Americans are a close 347,491. (CDC)

Baltimore has the third highest incident AIDS case report rate of any major metropolitan area, 50.0 cases per 100,000 population during 2001. (Maryland Dept. of Health and Mental Hygiene)

Since HIV reporting began in 1994, Maryland has detected approximately 2,500 new infections per year. By June 2002, 14,086 Marylanders were known to be living with HIV, but not progressed to AIDS. (Maryland Dept. of Health and Mental Hygiene)

Prince George’s County has 3,814 reported HIV/AIDS cases, or 15% of 25,424.(Maryland Dept. of Health and Mental Hygiene)

In 1999, HIV was the fifth leading cause of death for Americans between the ages of 25 and 44. (CDC)

An estimated 12,000 to 14,000 people in the District of Columbia are infected with HIV. (District of Columbia, HIV/AIDS Administration)

It is estimated that 1 in every 20 adults in D.C. is infected with HIV. (District of Columbia, HIV/AIDS Administration)

D.C. has the highest AIDS rate per 100,000 population among large cities in the United States. (District of Columbia, HIV/AIDS Administration)

The AIDS rate in D.C. is more than 10 times the national average. (District of Columbia, HIV/AIDS Administration)

The rate of new infections soared among men who had sex with men, a 17 percent increase from 1999 to 2002 in the 29 states which were counted. (CDC)

Most HIV data for the country does not include counts for the states with the highest AIDS population, such as New York, California, Illinois and D.C. (CDC)

By the year 2010 (six years from now) it is estimated that 110 million people will be infected, worldwide.(UNAIDS)

In Russia, HIV infections increase from 20 to 180 per 100,000 population from 2000 to 2003, a ninefold increase in three years. (Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, 10/31)

Russian health experts report that 1 percent of their population, or 1.5 million are infected. In 5 years, they expect 7 million will be infected. (Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, 10/16)

An estimated 40,000 new HIV infections still occur in the United States each year. An estimated one quarter of the 850,000 to 950,000 people living with HIV in the United States do not yet know they are infected. (Fleming P, Byers RH, Sweeney PA, Daniels D, Karon JM, Janssen RS. HIV prevalence in the United States, 2000 [Abstract]. In: Program and abstracts of the 9th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections; Seattle, Washington; February 24-28, 2002.)

For example, it has been estimated that nearly 25% of persons living with HIV pass through the corrections system, yet fewer than half of these systems routinely test inmates at entry. (Spaulding A, Stephenson B, Macalino G, Ruby W, Clarke JG, Flanigan TP. Human immunodeficiency virus in correctional facilities: A review. Clin Infect Dis. 2002;35:305–12.)

About 40% of HIV-infected persons first find out that they have HIV less than 1 year before AIDS diagnosis.(Neal JJ, Fleming PL. Frequency and predictors of late HIV diagnosis in the United States, 1994 through 1999 [Abstract 474M]. 9th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, Seattle, February 24-28, 2002)

Recently approved rapid HIV tests can be done outside a traditional laboratory setting and can reduce the time it takes to process tests from 2 weeks to 20 minutes.(CDC. Notice to readers: Approval of a new rapid test for HIV antibody. MMWR. 2002:51:1051–52)

There is much evidence that upon learning one is HIV-positive, infected persons reduce their risk behaviors and the likelihood of transmitting HIV to partners. (From four studies:

Wenger NS, Kussling FS, Beck K, Shapiro MF. Sexual behavior of individuals infected with the human immunodeficiency virus: The need for intervention. Arch Int Med 1994:154:1849–54 and

Kilmarx PH, Hamers FF, Peterman TA. Living with HIV: Experiences and perspectives of HIV-infected sexually transmitted disease clinic patients after posttest counseling. Sex Transm Dis. 1998:25:28-37.

Higgins DL, Galavotti C, O’Reilly KE, et al. Evidence for the effects of HIV antibody counseling and testing on risk behaviors. JAMA. 1991;266:2419–29

Hays RB, Paul J, Ekstrand M, Kegeles SM, Stall R, Coates TJ. Actual versus perceived HIV status, sexual behaviors and predictors of unprotected sex among young gay and bisexual men who identify as HIV-negative, HIV-positive and untested. AIDS. 1997;11:1495–1502.)

Among persons testing positive for HIV, there was a 70% reduction in reported risk behavior at 1 year after diagnosis. (Colfax GN, Buchbinder SP, Cornelisse PGA, et al. Sexual risk behaviors and implications for secondary HIV transmission during and after HIV seroconversion. AIDS. 2002;16:1529–35.)

Each year approximately 6,000-7,000 women with HIV give birth, resulting in more than 300 HIV-infected infants. The use of appropriate anti-HIV medications that begins during pregnancy, together with other obstetric interventions can maximally reduce the risk for mother-to-child transmission to less than 2%.(Connor EM, Sperling RS, Gelber R, et al. Reduction of maternal-infant transmission of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 with zidovudin)