African-Americans, Latinos, gay and bisexual men are the populations hardest hit by HIV

HIV takes the greatest toll among African-American and Latino men and women and gay and bisexual men of all races. The rate of new infections among blacks is seven times the rate of whites. Among Hispanics, the rate of new HIV infections is three times that of whites. And according to a recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) analysis, while men who have sex with men (MSM) make up only 4% of males aged 13 and older in the United States, the HIV diagnosis rate in this population is at least 40 times that of other men. CDC estimates that about 56,000 Americans become newly infected with HIV every year - one new infection every 9 ½ minutes. African-Americans are the racial group that bears the heaviest burden of HIV in the United States.