11.1 –16,602

lornajarrettblanchard January 1, 1988

Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

–16,602 Death rate per 100,000, 6.78 CDC. CDC WONDER on-line Database, ICD 9, 042-044

Alabama 92 2.38 death rate Montana 5 0.63 death rate
Alaska 7 1.29 Nebraska 28 1.78
Arizona 151 4.26 Nevada 64 5.95
Arkansas 53 2.26 New Hampshire 24 2.21
California 3,180 11.14 (above avg.) New Jersey 1,157 14.98 (above average)
Colorado 167 5.12 New Mexico 31 2.08
Connecticut 199 6.08 New York 3,990 22.20 “
Delaware 26 4.01 NYC 3,159 Condran 1991, p. 38.
District of Co. 247 39.02 “ North Carolina 220 3.39
Florida 1,449 11.75 “ North Dakota 3 0.46
Georgia 473 7.48 Ohio 233 2.16
Hawaii 61 5.64 Oklahoma 79 2.50
Idaho 11 1.12 Oregon 99 3.61
Illinois 459 4.02 Pennsylvania 468 3.95
Indiana 113 2.06 Rhode Island 42 4.21
Iowa 24 0.87 South Carolina 115 3.37
Kansas 55 2.23 South Dakota 5 0.72
Kentucky 46 1.25 Tennessee 105 2.18
Louisiana 247 5.76 Texas 1,165 6.98 “
Maine 17 1.41 Utah 34 2.01
Maryland 248 5.32 Vermont 6 1.09
Massachusetts 318 5.31 Virginia 257 4.25
Michigan 217 2.35 Washington 205 4.42
Minnesota 72 1.68 West Virginia 16 0.87
Mississippi 74 2.87 Wisconsin 59 1.22
Missouri 183 3.60 Wyoming 3 0.65

Narrative Information

CDC: “HIV stands for human immunodeficiency virus. It is the virus that can lead to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome or AIDS if not treated. Unlike some other viruses, the human body can’t get rid of HIV completely, even with treatment. So once you get HIV, you have it for life. HIV attacks the body’s immune system, specifically the CD4 cells (T cells), which help the immune system fight off infections. Untreated, HIV reduces the number of CD4 cells (T cells) in the body, making the person more likely to get other infections or infection-related cancers. Over time, HIV can destroy so many of these cells that the body can’t fight off infections and disease. These opportunistic infections or cancers take advantage of a very weak immune system and signal that the person has AIDS, the last stage of HIV infection.

“No effective cure currently exists, but with proper medical care, HIV can be controlled. The medicine used to treat HIV is called antiretroviral therapy or ART. If people with HIV take ART as prescribed, their viral load (amount of HIV in their blood) can become undetectable. If it stays undetectable, they can live long, healthy lives and have effectively no risk of transmitting HIV to an HIV-negative partner through sex. Before the introduction of ART in the mid-1990s, people with HIV could progress to AIDS in just a few years. Today, someone diagnosed with HIV and treated before the disease is far advanced can live nearly as long as someone who does not have HIV.” (CDC. About HIC/AIDS. 12-2-2019.)

Sources

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. About HIC/AIDS. 12-2-2019. Accessed 3-31-2020 at: https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics/whatishiv.html

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CDC WONDER on-line Database, Compressed Mortality File 1979-1998. ICD-9 Code 042-044 (Human immunodeficiency virus infection) 1988. Accessed 4-1-2020 at: http://wonder.cdc.gov/cmf-icd9.html

Condran, Gretchen A. “Changing Patterns of Epidemic Disease in New York City,” pp. 27-41 in:
Rosner, David (Ed.). Hives of Sickness: Public Health and Epidemics in New York City. Rutgers University Press, 1991, 236 pages. Partially digitized by Google. Accessed 3-29-2018 at: http://books.google.com/books?id=o34QxI6lHwAC&pg=PA70&dq=1916+Polio+Epidemic&ei=Cy5DSZWvMIXAMpqalOYN#PPP7,M1