City HIV/AIDS Statistics

Today approximately 11,000 people are living with AIDS in the City of Los Angeles. A total of 28,244 AIDS cases have been reported in the City since the epidemic began. During the year 2005, 555 AIDS cases (487 male, 68 female) were diagnosed in the City of Los Angeles.

Estimates suggest that approximately 30,000 people in the City of Los Angeles are living with AIDS or HIV, including people who do not yet know they are infected. The charts included on this page include AIDS cases only, because California HIV statistics are incomplete at this time.

The information below offers more details on the epidemic in the City of Los Angeles. The AIDS Coordinator’s Office is committed to using this information to target HIV/AIDS prevention and care services to the people most in need.

Gender Trends in the Los Angeles Epidemic

Although women are still a minority of AIDS cases diagnosed, their numbers are rising. While women represented only 5% of the AIDS cases diagnosed in the City of Los Angeles in 1991-92, they accounted for 12% of cases diagnosed in 2005.

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Race/Ethnicity Trends in Epidemic

The graph below demonstrates the increasing impact of AIDS on Los Angeles' communities of color since the early 1990's.

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Figures 3 and 4 show the rates of new AIDS diagnoses proportionate to the size of each racial/ethnic male and female population in the City of Los Angeles. The use of rates allows us to better evaluate the impact of AIDS on smaller populations. For example, note the disproportionate impact among African American men and women.

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Figures 5 and 6 present a racial/ethnic picture of the men and women living with AIDS today in the City of Los Angeles.

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Common Modes of Exposure to HIV Virus¹

The primary mode of HIV infection in Los Angeles is still male-to-male sexual contact, though women are most frequently infected through heterosexual contact.

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New Diagnoses by Age Group

Figure 9 shows the age groups of people newly diagnosed with AIDS during the year 2005. When looking at these data it is important to note that people are usually infected with HIV for a number of years before they receive an AIDS diagnosis.

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¹ Persons with no identified exposure category have been redistributed according to the patterns of re-classification among persons reported without a risk in 1993-2002.

Source:
HIV Epidemiology Program, County of Los Angeles Department of Health Services and United States Census 2000.

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