HIV/AIDS and Native Hawaiians/Other Pacific Islanders

From Office of Minority Health

December 16, 2011

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At a Glance -- AIDS Cases and Rates (Adults)

Estimated number of diagnosed cases and rates (per 100,000) of AIDS, 2009 (United States)
	# Cases	Rate (per 100,000)	NHOPI/White Ratio
NHOPI males	43	24.2	2.5
White males	8,121	9.8

NHOPI females	7	4.0	2.7
White females	1,344	1.5

NHOPI (both sexes)	50	11.2	2.4
White (both sexes)	9,467	4.7

Source: CDC 2011. HIV Surveillance Report: Diagnoses of HIV infection and AIDS in the United States and Dependent Areas, 2009, v.21. Table 4a.
www.cdc.gov/hiv/surveillance/resources/reports/2009report/pdf/2009SurveillanceReport.pdf [PDF 2MB]

At a Glance -- AIDS Cases and Rates(Children <13 Years Old)

Estimated number of cases and rates (per 100,000) of AIDS, 2009 (United States)
	# Cummulative Cases	# Cases	Rate (per 100,000 population)
NHOPI	7	0	0
White	1,602	1	0.0
Total Population	9,448	13	0.0

At a Glance -- AIDS Cases (Adults and Children)

Estimated number of cases of AIDS by year of diagnosis, 2009
	Cumulative # Cases	# Cases	% of total cases
NHOPI	839	50	0.1%
White	426,102	9,467	28%
Total Population	1,108,611	34,247

Source: CDC 2011. HIV Surveillance Report: Diagnoses of HIV infection and AIDS in the United States and Dependent Areas, 2009, v.21. Table 2a.
www.cdc.gov/hiv/surveillance/resources/reports/2009report/pdf/2009SurveillanceReport.pdf [PDF 2MB]

At a Glance -- Death Rate

National data not available at this time.

At a Glance -- AIDS Deaths

Estimated number of deaths of persons with AIDS by year of death, 2008
	Cumulative # Deaths	Rate	# Deaths	NHOPI/White Ratio
NHOPI	347	2.7	12	1.1
White	253,397	2.4	4,766	--
Total Population	594,496	5.3	16,088	--

Source: CDC 2011. HIV Surveillance Report: Diagnoses of HIV infection and AIDS in the United States and Dependent Areas, 2009, v.21. Table 12a.
www.cdc.gov/hiv/surveillance/resources/reports/2009report/pdf/2009SurveillanceReport.pdf [PDF 2MB]

At a Glance -- HIV Testing

Age-adjusted percent of HIV testing status among persons 18 years of age and over, 2009
	Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander	Non-Hispanic White	Hispanic/ Non-Hispanic White Ratio
Ever tested	32.1	37.3	0.9
Never tested	67.9	62.7	1.1

Source: CDC 2010. Summary Health Statistics for U.S. Adults: 2009. Table 41.
www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/series/sr_10/sr10_249.pdf [PDF |1.6MB]

At a Glance -- HIV Cases: Pacific Territories

Estimated number of cases and rates (per 100,000) of HIV, 2008-2009 (U.S. Territories)
Region	Number of HIV/AIDS cases, Cummulative	HIV Cummulative Rate
U.S. National-White	--	8.2*
U.S. All Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander	--	22.8*
American Samoa	3	4.6
Federated States of Micronesia	37	33.4
Guam	196	107.6
Northern Mariana Islands	34	53.9
Republic of Palau	9	44.1
Republic of Marshall Islands	22	40.6

*Data represents all ages in the United States, 2008 only. Comparable data is not available; this is for illustration only.

Source: Secretariate of the Public Community 2010. Cummulative reported HIV, AIDS and AIDS deaths: cases, incidence rates and gender, 2009.
www.spc.int/hiv/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=378&itemid=148 [PDF |23KB]

Source (U.S. National): CDC 2010. HIV Surveillance Report: Diagnoses of HIV infection and AIDS in the United States abd Dependent Areas, 2008, v.20. Table 1a.
www.cdc.gov/hiv/surveillance/resources/reports/2008report/pdf/2008SurveillanceReport.pdf [PDF 7MB]

Hawaii State Department of Health 2010. Hawaiian/Part-Hawaiian AIDS Cases in Hawaii.
http://hawaii.gov/health/healthy-lifestyles/std-aids/aboutus/prg-aids/aids_rep/1h2008.pdf [PDF 91.6KB]

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