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National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day 2022: Everything you need to know about this day

Blacks/African Americans account for a higher proportion of new HIV diagnoses, those living with HIV, and those who have ever received an AIDS diagnosis, compared to other races/ethnicities.

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National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day 2022: February 7 is National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NBHAAD). It aims to increase HIV education, testing, community involvement and treatment among black communities across the nation.

Blacks/African Americans account for a higher proportion of new HIV diagnoses, those living with HIV, and those who have ever received an AIDS diagnosis, compared to other races/ethnicities.

In 2017, African Americans accounted for 43 percent (16,694) of new HIV diagnoses, though they comprise 13 percent of the U.S. population.

Between 2015 and 2019, there was a 10% decrease in new annual HIV diagnoses among Black Americans.

Although this decrease shows an optimistic trend, Black Americans still make up a disproportionate number of new HIV diagnoses in many regions of the U.S.

For example, Black Americans accounted for 52% (9,655 cases) of all new HIV diagnoses in the South in 2019.

Among the top five states with the highest number of new HIV diagnoses among Black Americans, four are also located in the South: Florida, Georgia, Texas, and North Carolina.

Black Transgender Men and Women continue to be disproportionately impacted by HIV, but the data has often underrepresented that impact due to challenges with accurate and inclusive data collection.

According to the CDC, Black Trans Men and Women both accounted for more than half of all people newly diagnosed with HIV among transgender people from 2009 to 2014.

NBHAAD is an opportunity to advance a national conversation about the way social determinants of health and racial inequities have resulted in a disproportionate burden of HIV in Black communities.

For example:

In 2018, 23% of Black Americans were living in poverty, compared to 13% of the overall U.S. population.

In the same year, 21% of Black Americans were experiencing food insecurity, compared to 11% of the overall U.S. population.

This NBHAAD, we must recognize and address these deep, systemic inequities to work towards ending the HIV epidemic among Black Americans.

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