AIDS diagnoses New York by transmission category 2019

Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is the state of an HIV infection when a person's CD4 cell count is below 200 cells per microliter of blood. A diagnosis of AIDS means that a person's immune system is incredibly weakened by HIV and they are no longer able to effectively fight off infections. In 2019, in the State of New York approximately 49 percent of new AIDS diagnoses were among those that had acquired HIV through male-to-male sexual contact.

Distribution of AIDS diagnoses among adults and adolescents in New York as of 2019, by transmission category

Transmission Category	Percentage of all AIDS diagnoses
Male-to-male sexual contact	49%
Injection drug use	16%
Male-to-male sexual contact and injection drug use	4%
Heterosexual contact*	30%
Other**	2%

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Release date

2022

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Region

United States

Survey time period

2019

Age group

13 years and older

Supplementary notes

Transmission category is the term for the classification of cases that summarizes a person’s possible HIV risk factors; the summary classification results from selecting, from the presumed hierarchical order of probability, the one risk factor most likely to have resulted in HIV transmission. The exception is men who had sexual contact with other men and injected drugs; this group makes up a separate transmission category. Data have been statistically adjusted to account for missing transmission category.

AIDS diagnoses refer to the number of cases confirmed by laboratory or clinical evidence in 2020. Data are presented based on a person’s most recent known address as of December 31 of the queried year. Because of delays in the reporting of deaths, prevalence data are based on a 12-month reporting delay to allow data to be reported to CDC (prevalence data are considered preliminary until 12-months after the specified year to account for delays in reporting).
* Heterosexual contact with a person known to have, or to be at high risk for, HIV infection.
** Includes hemophilia, blood transfusion, perinatal exposure, and risk factor not reported or not identified.
Release date represents the date figures were accessed.

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