HIV/AIDS is still an epidemic in New York City. It is estimated that 100,000 New Yorkers are diagnosed with HIV or AIDS, and more than 80 percent of new AIDS diagnoses and AIDS-related deaths are among African-American and Hispanic New Yorkers. More than 43,000 New Yorkers living with HIV or AIDS are over the age of 50, and almost a quarter of the new diagnoses annually are among women. HIV is the second leading cause of death for New Yorkers between 35 and 44, and the third leading cause for those between 45 and 54.

Because an estimated 21 percent of people living with HIV are unaware of their infection, HHC is increasingly making HIV testing part of routine patient care across all settings - in our emergency rooms, our outpatient clinics and our inpatient units. In Fiscal Year 2011 alone, HHC facilities provided HIV testing to 195,516 patients -- a 46 percent increase over the number tested just five years previously. Since 2006 HHC has helped a million patients know their HIV status, helped over 10,000 New Yorkers learn about their HIV positive diagnoses and linked those patients to life-saving care and treatment -- further reducing the chance that they will spread HIV.

Below you will see the number of patients given HIV tests provided at HHC acure care hospitals and diagnostic and treatment centers from Fiscal Year 2007 through Fiscal Year 2011.

Unique Patients Tested for HIV
Fiscal Year 2007 - Fiscal Year 2011

Facility-Specific Data