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HIV/AIDS and American Indians/Alaska Natives

American Indians/Alaska Natives (AI/NA) have twice the rate of HIV infection as compared to the white population.
American Indian/Alaska Natives have twice the AIDS rate as compared to the white population.
In 2016, American Indian/Alaska Native women were three times more likely to be diagnosed with AIDS infection, as compared to the white female population.

HiIV Infection Cases and Rates (Adults)

**Estimated number of diagnosed cases and rates (per 100,000) of HIV infection, 2016**
	# Cases	Rate	AI/NA / White Ratio
American Indian/Alaska Native males	198	20.9	2.0
White males	8,879	10.6

American Indian/Alaska Native females	45	4.5	2.6
White females	1,450	1.7

American Indian/Alaska Native (total, all ages)	243	10.2	2.0
White (total, all ages)	10,345	5.2

Source: CDC 2017. HIV Surveillance Report: Diagnoses of HIV Infection in the United States and Dependent Areas, 2016, v.28. Table 3a.
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/pdf/library/reports/surveillance/cdc-hiv-surveillance-report-2016-vol-28.pdf [PDF | 5.77MB]

HIV Infection Cases and Rates (Children <13 years)

**Estimated number of diagnosed cases and rates (per 100,000) of HIV infection, 2016**
	# Cases	Rate
American Indians/Alaska Natives	0	0.0
White	16	0.1
Total Population	122	0.2

HIV Cases (Adults and Children)

**Estimated number of cases of HIV infection by year of diagnosis, 2016**
	# Cases	% of total cases
American Indians/Alaska Natives	243	0.6%
White	10,345	26.0%
Total Population	39,782

**Estimated number of persons living with HIV infection by year, 2015**
	# Cases	% of total cases
American Indians/Alaska Natives	2,904	0.3%
White	298,670	30.7%
Total Population	973,846

Source: CDC 2017. HIV Surveillance Report: Diagnoses of HIV Infection in the United States and Dependent Areas, 2016, v.28. Table 20a.
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/pdf/library/reports/surveillance/cdc-hiv-surveillance-report-2016-vol-28.pdf [PDF | 5.77MB]

AIDS Cases and Rates (Adults)

**Estimated number of cases and rates (per 100,000) of AIDS, 2016**
	# Cases	Rate (per 100,000)	American Indians/Alaska Natives / White Ratio
American Indians/Alaska Natives males	77	8.1	1.8
White males	3,713	4.4

American Indians/Alaska Natives females	24	2.4	3.0
White females	724	0.8

American Indians/Alaska Natives (both sexes)	102	4.3	2.0
White (both sexes)	4,442	2.2

Source: CDC 2017. HIV Surveillance Report: Diagnoses of HIV Infection in the United States and Dependent Areas, 2016, v.28. Table 4a.
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/pdf/library/reports/surveillance/cdc-hiv-surveillance-report-2016-vol-28.pdf [PDF | 5.77MB]

AIDS Cases and Rates (Children, <13 years)

**Estimated number of cases and rates (per 100,000) of AIDS, 2016**
	Cumulative # Cases	# Cases	Rate (per 100,000 population)
American Indian/Alaska Native	28	1	0.2
White	1,536	5	0.0
Total Population	9,573	38	0.1

Source: CDC 2017. HIV Surveillance Report: Diagnoses of HIV Infection in the United States and Dependent Areas, 2016, v.28. Table 6a.
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/pdf/library/reports/surveillance/cdc-hiv-surveillance-report-2016-vol-28.pdf [PDF | 5.77MB]

AIDS Cases (Adults and Children)

**Estimated number of cases of AIDS by year of diagnosis, 2016**
	Cummulative # Cases	# Cases	% of total cases
American Indian/Alaska Native	3,580	102	0.6%
White	439,998	4,442	24.5%
Total Population		18,160

Source: CDC 2017. HIV Surveillance Report: Diagnoses of HIV Infection in the United States and Dependent Areas, 2015, v.28. Table 2a.
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/pdf/library/reports/surveillance/cdc-hiv-surveillance-report-2016-vol-28.pdf [PDF | 5.77MB]

Death Rate

**HIV Death Rates per 100,000 population (2015)**
	American Indian/Alaska Native	Non-Hispanic White	American Indian/Alaska Native /Non- Hispanic White Ratio
All ages, Men	3.5	4.0	0.9
All ages, Women	1.6	0.6	2.7
Total Population	2.1	2.0	1.1

Source: CDC 2017. HIV Surveillance Report: Diagnoses of HIV Infection in the United States and Dependent Areas, 2016, v.28. Table 19a.
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/pdf/library/reports/surveillance/cdc-hiv-surveillance-report-2016-vol-28.pdf [PDF | 5.77MB]

AIDS Deaths

**Estimated number of deaths, and death rates, of persons with AIDS by year of death, 2015**
	Rate	Cummulative # Deaths	# Deaths	% of total cases
American Indian/Alaska Native	2.1	1,988	49	0.4%
White	2.0	279,807	3,897	31.0%
Total Population	3.9	692,789	12,497

Source: CDC 2017. HIV Surveillance Report: Diagnoses of HIV Infection in the United States and Dependent Areas, 2016, v.28. Table 17a.
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/pdf/library/reports/surveillance/cdc-hiv-surveillance-report-2016-vol-28.pdf [PDF | 5.77MB]

HIV Testing

**Age-adjusted percent of HIV testing status among persons 18 years of age and over, 2015**
	American Indian/Alaska Native	Non-Hispanic White	American Indian/Alaska Native /Non- Hispanic White Ratio
Ever tested	42.3	35.5	1.2
Never tested	57.7	64.5	0.9

Source: CDC 2017. Summary Health Statistics for U.S. Adults: 2015. Table A-20a.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhis/SHS/tables.htm

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