A total of 204.7 of every 100,000 people in Alabama lived with HIV/AIDS in 2010 -- a prevalence well below the national average. Still, nine Alabama counties exceeded the national HIV/AIDS prevalence in 2010: Barbour, Bullock, Dallas, Jefferson, Lowndes, Macon, Mobile, Russell and Montgomery, which had more than double the national prevalence.
Alabama also had the 10 th highest HIV incidence in the United States in 2010, with 20.4 people of every 100,000 testing newly positive for HIV. Leading the nation, 38.3 people of every 100,000 in Maryland were newly diagnosed in 2010.
In 2013, 11.51 people of every 100,000 in Alabama tested newly positive for HIV, and 12,404 people in Alabama lived with HIV/AIDS, according to preliminary statistics from the Alabama Department of Public Health. The cumulative number of HIV diagnoses reported to ADPH from 1982 to March 31, 2014, are 18,492, which include both living and dead individuals.
AL.com is examining the state's HIV/AIDS numbers as part of a larger look at Alabama's sexual health. Previously, AL.com reported that sexually transmitted disease incidence for chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis in Alabama are
nearly double the national average based on population.
