Fitzsimon File

22—year anniversary of World AIDS Day December 1^st

25,000,000—number of people who have died of AIDS worldwide (Kaiser Family Fund; U.S. Global Policy Fact Sheet—The Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic)

33,400,000—number of people living with HIV/AIDS worldwide in 2008 (Ibid)

29,000,000—number of people living with HIV/AIDS worldwide in 2001(Ibid)

25—-age of people under which more than half of the new infections occur (Ibid)

1,100,000—number of people in the U.S. living with HIV/AIDS (Kaiser Family Foundation HIV/AIDS Policy Fact Sheet; The HIV/AIDS Epidemic in the United States)

583,298—number of AIDS deaths in U.S. since beginning of epidemic (Ibid)

500,000—-estimated number of African-Americans living with HIV/AIDS in the U.S. (Kaiser Family Foundation HIV/AIDS Policy Fact Sheet; Black Americans and HIV/AIDS)

12—-percentage of U.S. population that is African-American (Ibid)

45—percent of new HIV infections that occur among African-Americans (Ibid)

23,356— number of people living with HIV/AIDS in North Carolina as of December 31, 2008 (2008 HIV/STD Surveillance Report. N.C. Department of Health and Human Services)

1,358—-number of new HIV cases in North Carolina from January to September 2009 (North Carolina HIV/STD Quarterly Surveillance Report: Vol. 2009, No. 3)

20.1—the three-year (2005-2007) average rate of diagnosed HIV infection in NC

per 100,000 people (2008 HIV/STD Surveillance Report. N.C. Department of Health and Human Services)

41.8—cases in Mecklenburg County per 100,000 people (Ibid)

40.2—cases in Edgecombe County per 100,000 people (Ibid)

10.7—HIV infections in North Carolina among whites per 100,000 people in 2007 (Epidemiological Profile of HIV/STD Prevention and Care Planning 2008, N.C. Department of Health and Human Services)

78.2—HIV infections in North Carolina of African-Americans per 100,000 people in 2007 (Ibid)

33—percentage of HIV infections nationwide among IV drug users and their partners (San Francisco AIDS Foundation)

33—percent that HIV infections are reduced by clean needle exchange program for IV drug users. (Ibid)

0—-number of times proposals for a clean needle exchange program have even been voted on in the North Carolina General Assembly

21—percent of people infected with HIV who don’t know it (Kaiser Family Foundation HIV/AIDS Policy Fact Sheet; The HIV/AIDS Epidemic in the United States)

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