Up For Fun? Do it Safely!

• When using a condom correctly, people are at least 10 times less likely to get HIV.
• For people who are not HIV positive but are sexually active, taking PrEP every day reduces their risk by a LOT - 74% from injecting drugs and 99% from sex.
• People who are living with HIV and taking antiretroviral therapy (ART) have an undetectable viral load and are unable to transmit HIV to their partner; Undetectable = Untransmittable (U=U).

To Beat the Odds Know the Facts

HIV Lifetime Risk for Gay and Bisexual Men:

• 1 in 4 Latino men may encounter HIV in their lifetime
• 1 in 2 African American/Black men may encounter HIV in their lifetime
• Roughly one-fifth of Black and Latinx gay and bisexual men are on PrEP, which is significantly less than the one-third of white gay and bisexual men on PrEP
• 1 in 7 Black gay and bisexual men are unaware they have HIV
• 1 in 6 Latino gay and bisexual men are unaware they have HIV

Transgender Women and HIV:

• Nearly 1 in 2 Black transgender women are are living with HIV
• 1 in 4 Latinx transgender women are living with HIV

Black People and HIV:

• 42% of new HIV diagnoses are among Black individuals

Youth and HIV

• 19% of LGBTQ high school youth have been tested for HIV
• 39% of LGBTQ high school youth used a condom during their last sexual intercourse, compared to 60% of non-LGBTQ youth
• Among people 13-24 living with HIV, 44% don’t know their status
• Only 24% of college students have ever been tested
• 84% of youth 15-24 believes there is stigma around HIV

Youth and Sex Education

• Only 41% of U.S. secondary schools are required to provide students with instruction on HIV prevention
• 54% of HBCUs have no formal HIV prevention policies
• Just 34 states and the District of Columbia mandate HIV education
• Only 13 states require that HIV education be medically accurate

HIV Transmission

• 80% of new diagnoses in men were from sex with other men
• 7% of new diagnoses resulted from injection drug use
• HIV can only be transmitted through bodily fluids like semen and blood

Get Tested

To get tested for HIV or linked to medical care, please visit your local health department or community-based organization. To find a location near you please visit hrc.im/GetTestedHRC.

Additional Resources

Resources:

• CDC HIV Surveillance Report - Updated (2018):
• HIV Among Gay and Bisexual Men, CDC Fact Sheet (2016):
• https://transequality.org/sites/default/files/docs/usts/USTS-Full-Report-Dec17.pdf
  
• HIV In the United States: At A Glance, CDC (2018):
• HIV Among African Americans, CDC Fact Sheet (2016):
• HIV Transmission, CDC (2019):
• Pinkerton, Steven D., Paul R. Abramson. “Effectiveness of condoms in preventing HIV transmission”, Social Science & Medicine 44, no. 9 (May 1997): pp. 1303-1312.
• HIV Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2020):
• HIV Basics: Prevention, CDC (2019):
• Original CDC HIV Surveillance Report (2018):
• We the People: A Black Plan to End HIV, Black AIDS Institute (2020):
• Grant, Jaime M., Lisa A. Mottet, Justin Tanis, Jack Harrison, Jody L. Herman, and Mara Keisling. Injustice at Every Turn: A Report of the National Transgender Discrimination Survey.
  

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