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Pediatric AIDS in Illinois

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Reported perinatal transmission data in Illinois

Year

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

Reported perinatal transmission cases

15

8

17

10

0

1

4

3

1

Local Information

In Illinois, approximately 94% of delivering moms are tested for HIV during regular prenatal care.

Approximately 144-236 infants per year acquire HIV infection through perinatal transmission in the U.S., and about 40% of their mothers were not tested until birth or later.

Of the 32,194 people reported to be living with HIV/AIDS in Illinois in 2006, 7,083 are women. Among women, 66% are African-American; 17% are white; and 14% are Hispanic.

On average, 27% of women living with HIV in Illinois were infected through injection drug use, while approximately 71% were infected through heterosexual contact.

Since 1981, there has been a steady increase averaging 5.6% every five years in the reported cases of women with HIV/AIDS.

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.

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

In Illinois, 84% of people reported with HIV diagnoses reside in the Chicago metro area.

Sources:

The Epidemic in the United States

Approximately 56,300 new HIV infections occurred in the United States in 2006. (CDC, Estimates of New HIV Infection in the United States, 2008)

In 2007, an estimated total of 1.2 million people were living with HIV in the U.S. (UNAIDS, 2008 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic)

About 100 to 200 infants in the U.S. are infected with HIV annually, nearly all through mother-to-child transmission. (CDC, Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission and Prevention, 2007)

From 2002 to 2006, the estimated number of AIDS cases in the U.S. decreased 64 percent among children under 13 years of age. (CDC, HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report, 2006)

Approximately one in five of people living with HIV in the U.S. are unaware they are infected. (CDC, HIV Prevalence Estimates—United States, 2008)

Information compiled by Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation

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