2007 Policy Priorities: Time to Deliver
HIV/AIDS in Illinois

AFC estimates that 40-42,000 people were living with HIV/AIDS in Illinois in 2005. Just over 31,000 of these individuals have been tested for HIV and know their HIV status. An estimated 10,000 HIV-positive Illinoisans (25%) do not know they are infected with HIV.

Of the reported 31,376 people living with HIV/AIDS in Illinois, 16,166 are African-American; 9,970 are white; and 4,398 are Latino.

Gay men and men who have sex with men (MSM) continue to make up the majority of reported HIV cases. 57% of men living with HIV in Illinois were infected through sex with another man. In Chicago, 84% of whites, 61% of Latinos, and 45% of African-American men living with HIV/AIDS were infected through male to male sex.

In Illinois, reports indicate that African-American women represent more than two out of three (68%) women living with HIV.

About 14% of people reported with HIV diagnoses in Illinois were infected by injection drug use. An additional 14% were infected through heterosexual sex.

In Illinois, 84% of people reported with HIV diagnoses reside in the Chicago metro area, 16% of reported HIV cases are among people who live downstate.

Sources:
U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Illinois Department of Public Health
Chicago Department of Public Health
Kaiser Family Foundation

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