{"id":9474,"date":"2025-03-01T13:55:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T18:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dhss.delaware.gov\/dph\/hiv-aids-risk2017\/"},"modified":"2025-03-02T00:24:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T05:24:05","slug":"hiv-aids-risk2017","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dhss.delaware.gov\/dph\/dpc\/hiv-aids-risk2017\/","title":{"rendered":"dpc\/hiv-aids-risk2017 ~  Risk of HIV-AIDS in Delaware  &#8211; Delaware Health and Social Services &#8211; State of Delaware"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-swiftype-index=\"true\">\n\n\n\n\n\n  <br>\n\n\n  \n\n\n  <div class=\"container\" id=\"main_header\">\n\n\n    <!-- BEGIN readspeaker div -->\n\n\n    <div class=\"rs_skip rsbtn rs_preserve\" id=\"readspeaker_button1\">\n\n\n      <a accesskey=\"L\" class=\"rsbtn_play\" href=\"https:\/\/app-na.readspeaker.com\/cgi-bin\/rsent?customerid=7262&#038;lang=en_us&#038;readid=main_content&#038;url=https:\/\/dhss.delaware.gov\/dph\/dpc\/hiv-aids-risk2017.html\" title=\"Listen to this page using ReadSpeaker\">\n\n\n        <span class=\"rsbtn_left rsimg rspart\"><span class=\"rsbtn_text\"><span>Listen<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n\n\n        <span class=\"rsbtn_right rsimg rsplay rspart\"><\/span>\n\n\n      <\/a>\n\n\n    <\/div>\n\n\n    <!-- END readspeaker div -->\n\n\n\n\n\n    \n\n\n    <header class=\"pull-left\">\n\n\n      <h1><!--[type=EDIT name=\"Page Title\"]--><\/h1><h1> <br> HIV Risk Behaviors and Testing in Delaware<\/h1><h1><!--[END]--><\/h1>\n\n\n    <\/header>\n\n\n  <\/div><br>\n\n\n \n\n\n  <div class=\"container\">\n\n\n    <div class=\"row\">\n\n\n      <div class=\"col-md-3\" id=\"leftCol\">\n\n\n        <div class=\"panel-group\" id=\"accordion\">\n\n\n          <div class=\"panel sectionmenu_panel\">\n\n\n            <div class=\"panel-heading\">\n\n\n              <p class=\"panel-title\"><a class=\"agency_nav\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapseOne\"><strong><i class=\"fa fa-align-justify fa-fw\"><\/i> Public Health Menu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n            <\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n            <div class=\"panel-collapse collapse in\" id=\"collapseOne\">\n\n\n              <div class=\"panel-body\" id=\"clf_nav\">\n\n\n                  <ul class=\"nav nav-stacked nav-pills-clf\" id=\"agency_sidebar\">\n    <li><a href=\"\/dph\/\"><h2>Home <i class=\"fa fa-home fa-fw\"><\/i><\/h2><\/a><\/li>\n    <li class=\"toplevel\"><a data-parent=\"#agency_sidebar\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#HomeMenu\"><h2>About <i class=\"fa fa-caret-right fa-fw\"><\/i><\/h2><\/a>\n      <ul class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"HomeMenu\">\n        <li><a href=\"\/dph\/about.html\">About DPH<\/a><\/li>\n        <li><a href=\"\/dph\/sections.html\">Sections &#038; 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Delaware was reporting less than 100 new infections each year over the past five years, however saw 124 new infections in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<h2>Testing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Almost half\u00a0\u2013 40.6 percent\u00a0\u2013 of Delaware adults report having been tested\u00a0at some time for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, according to the 2022 BRFS.\u00a0 Prevalence of testing is higher\u00a0\u2013 greater than 61.5 percent\u00a0\u2013 among adults between 35 and 54 years of age.\u00a0 Only 22.5\u00a0 percent of young adults 18-24 report ever being tested for HIV.\u00a0 The question specifically excluded tests they may have had as part of a blood donation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Black or African American adults are more likely to have been tested.\u00a0 In 2022, 56.3 percent of black adults in Delaware reported having been tested for HIV, compared to 35.0 percent of non-Hispanic white adults, and 40.8 percent of Hispanic\/Latino adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>The majority (51.6 percent) of those who have been tested said their last test was between 2015 and 2020.\u00a0 Another 15.5 percent reported their last test was in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><a href=\"brfsurveys.html\">Return to the main Delaware BRFS page.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n  <!--[END]-->\n\n\n  \n\n\n      <\/div>\n\n\n    <\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><!-- \/container -->\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen HIV Risk Behaviors and Testing in Delaware Public Health Menu Home About About DPH Sections &#038; Programs Office Locations Contact Info Calendar Services A-Z Services Air &#038; Water Quality Birth, Death, &#038; Marriage Records Clinics Health Data &#038; Statistics Emergency Preparedness Health &#038; Wellness Healthy Homes Healthy Workplaces Laboratory Restaurant Inspections Screening and Testing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":9401,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9474","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhss.delaware.gov\/dph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhss.delaware.gov\/dph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhss.delaware.gov\/dph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhss.delaware.gov\/dph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhss.delaware.gov\/dph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dhss.delaware.gov\/dph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10714,"href":"https:\/\/dhss.delaware.gov\/dph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9474\/revisions\/10714"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhss.delaware.gov\/dph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhss.delaware.gov\/dph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}