790,000 - 1.2 million adults and children have HIV/AIDS.
	36,000 – 54,000 adults and children were infected in 2003.
	0.5% to 0.7% is the adult HIV/AIDS prevalence rate.
	2.2 million adult and child deaths have occurred due to AIDS in 2003.

The following is an extract of the UNAIDS report, cited below and used with permission:

In the United States of America, around half of the approximately 40,000 new infections annually are occurring among African-Americans (12% of the country's population), with African-American women accounting for an increasing proportion of new infections. (Overall, an estimated one-third of new infections are occurring through heterosexual contact.) Many of the women do not engage in high-risk behaviour, but are contracting HIV through unsafe sex with their male partners—a significant share of whom also have sex with men or inject drugs.

Analysing data from 11 States, a recent US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study found that 34% of HIV-positive African-American men said they had sex with both women and men. However, only a small proportion of HIV-positive African-American women reported knowing that their partners also had sex with men. The secrecy surrounding such overlapping risk behaviour seems rooted mainly in the stigma that remains attached to homosexuality.

The costs are steep: AIDS is now the leading cause of death for African-American women aged 25–34. According to the Centres for Disease Control, some 90% of young urban HIV positive African-American men who have sex with other men are unaware of their seropositive status. Overall, it is estimated that fully one quarter of the 850,000–950,000 people living with HIV/AIDS in the USA are unaware that they are HIV-positive.

Notes:

* This mark indicates that this chart came directly from the UNAIDS (2003) AIDS epidemic update, December Report, the report can be accessed from the second link below, once you have reached the UNAIDS website, click the first link in the column on the right hand side

Resources:

1. Kanabus, Annabel. 14 Feb 2004. AVERT. 14 Feb 2004. < http://www.avert.org/ >.
2. UNAIDS: The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS. 14 Feb 2004. < http://www.unaids.org/ >.