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New York City was affected by the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s more than any other U.S. city. [1]: 16–17 The AIDS epidemic has been and continues to be highly localized due to a number of complex socio-cultural factors that affect the interaction of the populous communities that inhabit New York.
HIV arrived in New York City precisely 10 years before doctors first noticed the disease, a conclusion that’s based on new research published today in Nature. The finding solves a 35-year-old...
These tables describe new diagnoses of HIV and AIDS, people with HIV and AIDS, and deaths among people with HIV and AIDS, for New York City overall, and by sex, gender, race/ethnicity, age, borough, transmission category, and neighborhood.
In New York City, new AIDS cases that result from shared needles exceed those attributable to sexual contact, and the city’s Health Department has begun an experimental needle exchange program. ACT UP demonstrates at FDA headquarters to protest the slow pace of AIDS drug approval.
The estimated number of new HIV infections in NYC decreased by 8% from 2019 to 2021. In 2021, 79% of all people with HIV in NYC were virally suppressed, meaning that they had undetectable viral loads on the last viral load measurement of the calendar year, which is a slight increase from 78% in 2020.
NYC’s HIV epidemic is characterized by a declining number of new HIV diagnoses and estimated incident HIV infections, almost entirely sexually acquired, a large population of people with HIV (PWH), and generally high engagement across the HIV care continuum.
In New York City, one-third of AIDS cases are reported to the city health department within 1 month of diagnosis, about 85 percent are reported by 6 months, and the count is as nearly complete as it is likely to be after about 15 months (New York City Department of Health, 1989a).
