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More than 100,000 New Yorkers are living with HIV/AIDS.
As many as 25,000 New Yorkers are HIV-positive but do not know their status.
More than 5,000 New Yorkers are newly diagnosed with HIV infection each year, with 1 in 4 first learning they are HIV-positive at the time they are diagnosed with AIDS.
Only 1 in 4 New Yorkers age 18-64 report having a recent HIV test (within the past 18 months); among those with more than 3 sex partners in the past year, only 1 in 3 had an HIV test within the past 18 months.
New York City has the highest AIDS case rate of any city in the country, with more cases than Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, and Washington, D.C., combined.
AIDS is the fifth leading cause of death among all New Yorkers and the leading cause of death for New Yorkers age 25-44.
HIV infection is 3 times more prevalent among Blacks than among Whites, and twice as prevalent among Hispanics than among Whites.
In some of the neighborhoods most heavily affected by the epidemic, as many as 1 in 4 men who have sex with men are HIV-positive.
Over 30,000 children in New York City have been orphaned by the AIDS epidemic.
4 teenagers between 12 and 18 are infected each hour.

In a report at the 11th Annual Retrovirus Conference, Nash said the new figures, which were developed after the state of New York required health officials to report HIV cases, also show:

-- About 2.8 percent of all the men in New York City have HIV infection or have been diagnosed with AIDS, the late stage of infection.

-- About 3.9 percent of all men between the ages of 40 to 49 years have HIV infection or AIDS.

-- An estimated 25 percent of the people who live in New York and are infected with HIV are not aware of their status. Those people are not included in the totals.

Denis Nash, an epidemiologist with the Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies, part of the New York Academy of Medicine. said researchers have found persons diagnosed and living with HIV/AIDS in New York City die at a rate more than four times that of the rest of the city's population. "HIV remains the leading cause of death among New Yorkers aged 25-44 years and is the third leading cause of death among non-Hispanic black and Hispanic New Yorkers of all ages, following heart disease and cancer," he added.

The Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that AIDS cases among Americans over 50 have quintupled since 1995, up from 16,300 in 1995 to 90,600 in 2003. Today, seniors represent an estimated 14 percent of total AIDS cases and senior women represent 18 percent of female AIDS cases.

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