The number of people newly diagnosed with HIV in San Francisco declined again last year, continuing a trend first noticed in 2003. AIDS cases also showed a decline in 2007 while AIDS deaths appear to be holding steady.
The positive diagnosis for the city's fight against HIV and AIDS can be found in the health department's 2007 HIV/AIDS Epidemiology Annual Report. Released earlier this month, the report states that by the end of last year, 8,980 of the city's residents were living with AIDS while 6,490 people were living with HIV.
The report also shows that the number of new HIV diagnoses fell from 839 in 2003 to 500 in 2006. Last year, the number was 467, though the figure is expected to climb higher due to delays in reporting. The 2006 report initially had pegged the number of new HIV cases that year at only 406.
In terms of AIDS cases, 1,642 people were diagnosed with AIDS between 2004-2007. That was a slight drop from the period between 2000-2003 when 2,096 people were diagnosed with AIDS.
As for AIDS deaths, the reporting in recent years is not yet complete, with data only showing 184 in 2007 and 213 in 2006. For both 2004 and 2005 the city recorded 304 and 315 deaths respectively.
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Resources:
2007 HIV/AIDS Epidemiology Annual Report (download a .pdf copy here)
San Francisco Public Health Dept. - main web portal
AIDS Emergency Fund
National AIDS Memorial Grove at Golden Gate Park
UCSF - University of California San Francisco Positive Resource Center
1 comments:
Are these reliable stats? MRSA was politically concealed for years, until UCSF broke the cover?
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