AIDs Statistics from the CDC 2006
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AIDs Statistics from the CDC 2006
- The CDC study in 2006 accurately estimated the number of people currently living with an AIDS infection to be 448,871 in the U.S.
- The statistics of people infected in the District of Columbia and the United States estimated 432,915 adults and adolescents have the STD AIDS.
- The number estimated for children years 13 and under is 3,775.
- Usually STD statistics are graphed and broken down by reported cases in the regions targeted. They readjusted previous reported numbers from previous years.
Why estimate the numbers in this way you may ask?
- There are a number of reasons for this, but the two main reasons are reporting delays, and redistribution of cases in people who do not know that they are std infected, because they are not yet experiences any symptoms or at least so they think at the time.
How numbers are estimated:
The estimated totals account for people whose race is unknown, has multiple ethnicities or race, unknown sex of individual, and if information about state in which they are a resident of.
- 14,627 is the estimated number of deaths because of AIDS in the year 2006 in the United States and dependent areas.
- The District of Columbia and in the 50 states were 13,968 adult and adolescents cases and 48 cases of children under the age of 13.
- 565,927 is the cumulative estimated number of deaths caused by AIDS within the U.S. And dependent areas through 2006.
- The 50 states and the District of Columbia, this included a total of 540,436 adults and adolescents.
- The estimated number for children under 13 was 5,369 deaths.
Included in these numbers are unknown race or multiple race, unknown sex of person, and people whose residency is unknown.
Source: CDC Center for Disease Control and Prevention - 2006 Report - Cases of HIV Infection and AIDS in Urban and Rural Areas of the United States, 2006
