2005 New Cases: 1,806*

Black: 63%
White: 28%
Latino: 7%

Children
College Students
Women

Adolfo Aguilar
Outreach Worker, Chatham Social Health Council
Coleen Cunningham
Chief of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center
Milford Evans
Benefits Advocate
Gerrod Henderson
HIV Positive teenager
Peter Leone, M.D
Medical Director, HIV/STD Prevention & Care Branch
Jonathan Perry
HIV Positive
Fred Wiggins
HIV Positive
Del Williams, Ph.D
Manager, Epidemiology & Special Studies HIV/STD Prevention & Care Branch

HIV/AIDS on Campus
HIV/AIDS & Kids
HIV/AIDS & Latinos
HIV/AIDS & Women

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*NC Department of Health and Human Services

HIV/AIDS Among Whites

The rate of HIV infection among non-Hispanic whites is almost eight times less than for blacks and three times less than for Hispanics.* In 2004, 443 whites reported being diagnosed with HIV, and there were an estimated 4,398 whites living with HIV as of December 31, 2004. Dividing by gender, significantly more white males report contracting HIV than white females, 369 to 74 (2004 data). Overall, according to the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, white women have the lowest reported incidences of HIV/AIDS. White males are the third lowest, below black men and women, although in 2004 the number of white men who reported HIV equaled the number of black women who reported the disease.

A more recent report from the Epidemiology and Special Studies Unit in the NC DHHS Division of Public Health states that in 2005, about 250 white men and women reported contracting HIV.