HIV Statistics

Reported AIDS Cases in Orange County

Source: County of Orange Health Care Agency (12/31/2001 report)
Editor’s Note: These numbers represent full-blown AIDS cases, which are different than individuals who are HIV positive. HIV-positive cases in California started being tracked in July 2002.

Orange County AIDS Surveillance Data
5,970 Orange County residents with AIDS have been reported to the CDC since the time of the County’s first case report in 1981 through December 31, 2001. The first cases of AIDS identified in Orange County were two men who were contacts of Patient Zero.
Of the 5,970 cases of Orange County AIDS diagnoses…

99.3% are adults / adolescents (5,931)
91.0% are male (5,459)
75.5% are men who have sex with men (4,508)
(This includes men who may not classify themselves as “gay” or “homosexual.” This number is based solely on sexual activity.)
66.5% are White (3,973)
25.7% are Latino (1,535)
11.2% are injection-drug users (667)
9.0% are female (511)
5.3% are infected through high-risk heterosexual contact (319)
4.9% are African-American (290)
1.9% are Asian/Pacific Islander (111)
1.0% are Other / Unknown Ethnicities (61)
0.7% are pediatric cases (39)

Deaths Among Persons Reported with AIDS
A total of 3,199 people in have died of AIDS since Orange County started reporting cases of AIDS in 1981. These cases consisted of 3,103 adults and 16 children (non-adolescents).

AIDS Prevalence
The number of persons living with AIDS at the end of 2001 was 3.90% higher than at the end of 2000.