2006 Policy Priorities:
Bringing an End to AIDS

AFC Raises Estimate of Illinoisans Living with HIV/AIDS to 40,000 – 42,000

In July 2005, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released new data estimating the number of people living with HIV/AIDS in the U.S. According to the study, an estimated 1 million to 1.2 million people were living with HIV/AIDS in the U.S. as of 2003. The CDC’s previous figures estimated between 850,000 and 950,000 people living with HIV/AIDS as of 2000.

Since 2002, AFC had projected the number of Illinoisans living with HIV/AIDS at 35,000. Based on updated national data, AFC estimates 40,000 to 42,000 Illinoisans were likely living with HIV in 2003.

This estimate includes 26,617 reported living HIV/AIDS cases in 2003, approximately 10,000 HIV-positive Illinoisans who do not know their status, and 3,000 to 5,000 individuals with known but unreported HIV diagnoses.

Given national projections for 2004-05 remain unavailable, the actual number in 2006 could likely be higher than 42,000.

AFC thanks the Florida Department of Health for lending us its methodology for ascertaining statewide estimates.

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State Policy Priorities

Treatment Access

HIV Prevention

HIV and Incarceration

Federal Policy Priorities

Healthcare for PWAs

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